Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die: Steven Nadler in conversation with Alex Douglas

[@stefanotittarelli4054]

Steven Nadler is so direct,simple,clear!

[@abusalman5139]

Why does this have few views? It deserve more views.

[@davidtrindle6473]

I keep my death close to me, and contemplate my own death often. This has the opposite effect from “obsessing” (worrying?) about death. On the contrary, it takes death off the table. If you can face it unemotionally, death loses its power over the mind. On the other hand, anything one refuses to face becomes a greater and greater power over the mind. This whole idea is akin to psychotherapies which seeks to bring the unconscious into the conscious

[@robertcoltrane5602]

Couldn't agree more, great comment.

[@kimyunmi452]

I do 80 / 20 principle here. 80% on life, 20% on death.

[@FaithfulAtheist-n7h]

Sir do you find any proximity between the philosophical positions of Hegel and Spinoza with respect to the concept of the absolute and the role of art in its representation. If yes then please guide me to some literature further explaining the connection. I am a research student exploring Hegel's aesthetics from a Buddhist perspective.

[@wayofspinoza2471]

These are wonderful words of wisdom; however, how can we apply reason and understanding when we are rooted in old patterns of thinking and behavior? How is this transfer of being possible?

[@saiganeshmenon6883]

Excellent

[@volta2aire]

Everything that happens is necessary. It is the mixing of good and bad that makes reality. It shows us a way forward and calls on us to exercise our abilities. The veteran must live on because the dead cannot. Peace must be kept.

[@vincentzevecke4578]

It was an excellent. I really like it.

[@Liberated_from_Religion]

Spinoza's ban was a "blessing" for him and for us. If he had not been banned, he might have repented and gone back to belief, and we would not have his wonderful philosophy. The ban reinforced that he was right.

[@gfsrow]

Perhaps. But very unlikely. His intellectual capacity and curiosity and convictions were already well established as a young adult. It's indeed possible that without the excommunication he might not have had the "opportunity" for sustained reflection and writing, but then again if he had not been excommunicated then his life might not have been cut short by his subsequent occupation of grinding lenses and he would have had more than enough time to pursue his explorations and writings and perhaps even authored additional works.

[@BrewsterAJackson]

loved it - cheers guys

[@512Squared]

I wonder if the concept of reality being equivalent to perfection follows from his idea of necessity, that the world is exactly how it should be in the sense that our narratives about good and evil reveal the relativist world, which are in the main motivated by fears, and that God, as the universe in action, is beyond relativism and those fears.

[@kimyunmi452]

So sad spinoza died young at 44 years old..failing to preserve his conatus and due to his failure to gain knowlege of cause and effect that glass dust would ruin his lung...caute..

[@lewisalmeida3495]

Steven Nadler gives us much information about Spinoza’s philosophy; however more clarity is needed. As a private teacher and student of Spinoza’s Ethics, I understand that free will is an illusion and that the laws of necessity and self-preservation govern and direct all of existence. Also, intuition is required to understand his Ethics, reason alone will not help you. His philosophy is to be lived and understood; otherwise, it becomes abstract and only entertaining.

[@1330m]

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[@aharonnachshon8393]

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[@gfsrow]

While Spinoza himself may have said little with regard to "animal rights," yet his single substance monism lends itself to an egalitarian approach to all flora and fauna. Not unlike how Spinoza has been related to and/or referenced by Deep Ecologists (also with how Spinoza has been a resource for various Feminist writers and those defending LGBTQ rights or indeed with any egalitarian endeavor).

[@dharmapalsharma2679]

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