Baruch Spinoza's "On the Improvement of the Understanding"

[@lewisalmeida3495]

Great effort on studying Spinoza's Ethics. I was first introduced to Spinoza's philosophy in 1972, and I continue to apply Spinoza's clarity and truth through the increasing power of my understanding. You are correct and insightful about 'The Understanding' is a primer for the Ethics.

[@chindico]

"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare" --Spinoza

[@clumsydad7158]

i guess everybody is talking about Spinoza these days, which is pretty cool ... his pantheistic view of the world seems good for our times of trying to reconnect to spirituality, but not in a dogmatic way

[@Federico_Avendaño]

Yes, please make more content of Spinoza!

[@harryhouck]

I just discovered Spinoza and have found that we share the same philosophy about God and nature, which is remarkably interesting. I will research more about him.

[@erickmonroy184]

I've been slowly studying the ethics, and hearing you are making a series about it really comes in handy, hopefully i find some answers to my questions in your videos 😊

[@chindico]

Thanks!

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

Thank YOU!

[@nadeem6628]

@@TheoryPhilosophyI want to contact with you necessary, I am ahmed from Egypt

[@theviking2316]

Do you plan on doing Ethics? great stuff

[@manuvandercruyssen5898]

really like ur videos! Could you make one about Bourdieu and the concept of field based on his article: Bourdieu, Pierre (1983), “The field of cultural production, or: the economic world reversed,”

[@HahnenschreidesPositivismus]

Can you please do Ethics (in multiple parts)? I haven't heard a kantian have an interesting take since ... Deleuze. I think you really give us an interesting spin.

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

It starts this week and will be 5 parts :D

[@HahnenschreidesPositivismus]

@@TheoryPhilosophy holy shit, you even have the correct number of parts!

[@demit189]

could there be a connection here between Levinas's conception of science from Totaltity & Infintiy ? Specificially in that Science acts as an open system that is built on this strange connection between 'fact' (as in, the laws of gravity are 'true') and self-critique (results must be replicatable and consistent and theories must always be peer reviewed) open system. I havent read too much levinas but I think I remembering him mentioning Spinoza, although I cant remember if he thinks this system is totalizing or open.

[@aminrodriguez4707]

Cool,new philo account, thanks.

[@nazaren45]

ok 👌

[@WolfRevolt]

Excellent 👌

[@aminrodriguez4707]

3xcuse me, an alien species would not react to music. But my boy,.music is sound, thus it is vibration, physical vibrations that.we.perceive, we can assume evolution would have given aan alien species a way.to.sense vibrations through an athmosphere, hence we can assume they would perceive the difference between raw sound and structured with a purpose melodic music. What do you think.? I might be wrong, just throwing some basic physics into the stew man.

[@JCloyd-ys1fm]

I think the term, “perception,” is confusing. How can we perceive Peter? You’re just telling us about the idea of Peter. There’s no perception there. As a listener, I am passively learning of Peter. Perception suggests that our mind is always actively percieving. I guess there’s no such thing as passivity in our minds?

[@gavriilkremastiotis1914]

I suppose the term can be interchanged with "be ware of".

[@aminrodriguez4707]

Y3ah dont do that, haven't digged.into Kant yet.