Jonathan Israel: How Spinoza Was a Revolutionary Thinker- Stroum Lectures 2017

[@charlesputnam9370]

I read a lot of philosophy when I was young. Spinoza was my favorite and had a positive affect on my life. I think Spinoza 's book Ethics is a masterpiece of world literature. Lucky for me my local library has a copy. Last time I checked it out I was the only person to check it out for 10 years.

[@schmetterling4477]

Spinoza is still confused about a lot of things and he is still afraid. He may be worth reading for a historical perspective, but certainly not as a primary source of modern humanism.

[@Jack-eo5fn]

@@schmetterling4477, Spinoza is confused and afraid? Explain please.

[@trevorburth4589]

😊

[@mikelipschitz7281]

How can anyone study Spinoza without hearing this lecture .THANK YOU Prof

[@Eudaimonia88]

Absolutely amazing and delivered with clarity and insight. Thank you.

[@stewartbrands]

Absolutely.

[@Hermes1548]

Israel's books on the Enlightenment are sheer Joy for the mind. He has revived it.

[@erickraan]

This sort of conversation is sadly lacking in the discourse of the 21st century. Bravo meneer Israel, Bravo!

[@miglena2s]

Time is too short to drink from all the life-bearing fountains of knowledge. I will come to your lecture, for sure.. hopefully - rather sooner than later.

[@liberalegypt]

Thank you gor putting English subtitles

[@FalseFlagAmerican]

What a delight and a complete joy. Wonderful

[@basseur779]

Thank you for the interesting lecture, Dr. Israel. Very inspiring.

[@brauliocavalcanti3703]

Thank you, professor. Fascinating lecture

[@jiqbalg]

Marvelous enlightening lecture

[@aldogalvan7207]

Thank you Prof.

[@EinsteinKnowedIt]

Thank you for keeping the master metaphysical moralist relevant.

[@bradkelley8732]

I don't know if this post will get seen by anyone who might know, as it has been several years since this lecture was posted, but is the NEXT lecture of Prof. Israel available anywhere? He mentions it several times, and I would love to see it.

[@bradkelley8732]

@@StroumJewishStudies Thank you so much! I haven't checked out what it is that you do at Stroum Jewish Studies, but thank for making these available, and I will look into other things as well! I hit subscribe and Like! I grew up with racism against so many people and peoples, including Jewish people, and I will fight it anywhere and everywhere!

[@antonioclaro4654]

More than 500 years after, when I came of age, my mother explained to me that her family is a new christian family, that our ancestors where sephardic jews forced into christianity. And as more I gather knowledge regarding judaism more I identify characteristics in my education, in the ways of my family, that are related to judaism. With Spinoza that match is very personal, thank you!

[@aritovi]

Great lecture

[@hirschowitz1]

Superb lecture. May I recommend “Spinoza Selections” Edited by John Wild.... Thank you for posting.

[@livingthedreams...647]

EXCELLENT LECTURE...

[@blankpage5869]

If I can achieve half what spinoza has done, I can die in peace. The most brilliant philosopher I have read so far, followed by aristotle and david hume.

[@tobiasjohnson]

what did you find most brilliant?

[@jeendabhagat9650]

@@tobiasjohnson excelente btillant philosopher and

[@EinsteinKnowedIt]

His definition of the soul is most brilliant.

[@robinharwood5044]

We really should call him "Benedict", not "Baruch". "Benedict" was the name he used and was published under. It is the name he was known by for most of the years since his death. "Baruch" was the name he was given in the synagogue when he was a baby, and the name under which he was cursed, reviled, and excommunicated by the synagogue. I think it is an insult to him not to use the name he chose.

[@janbreeden3275]

What a great man

[@adamjones3818]

Truly a great man

[@88pampa]

Fantastic!

[@HLSimon]

Yeah, what he said. A cogent journey from Spinoza to T. Paine to today's problem of the formation of a sustainable Democratic Republicanism vs the everpresent Aristocratic (Oligarchic) Republicanism! Thank you Prof., many time over.

[@stevenyourke7901]

He was expelled from the synagogue?! I like him already!

[@2msvalkyrie529]

So; Jesus,Marx and Spinoza all disowned by rabbinical experts ? Hmm.....can any other religion boast a similar track record. ?

[@adamjones3818]

@@2msvalkyrie529 Christianity lol

[@nicolasszernek4359]

Wow, 35:40 to introduce an idea would deserve a 2h long lecture, at least.

[@Jan96106]

Interesting lecture.

[@FraterOculus]

How is he Jewish if he wasn't Jewish according to Jewish authority? Ironic that Jews now scramble to claim Spinoza after they condemned him.

[@Hermes1548]

Very well said.

[@M4chineTub3]

The Jewish authority did not 'took' his 'Jewishness' rather did Spinoza renounced being Jewish. He's a Jewish the same way Jesus is, born to Jewish mother. Spinoza didn't think religion is a bad thing, he thought religious establishments are. Most Jews these days think the same, as most pepole of the free world.

[@josefrancis7126]

W SOMERSET MAUGHAM READ SPINOZA CLOSELY

[@Nudnik1]

Einstein followed rabbi Spinoza theology. Sephardic a new 7th century movement.. Azkenazim a new 9th century movement. The Zohar Kabbalah a new movement.. Chassidus was a new movement... Reform haskalah a new movement.. Modern Orthodox a new movement.. Ask Yemenite or a mitzrahi from Bovel . Yidden. Ok

[@alecmisra4964]

Spinoza is not significant except as a useful plagiarist for those too lazy to read the Greeks (most people). Descartes and Locke are the only significant philosophical figures of the enlightenment. Israel needs to come out of Egypts land on this matter.

[@petermsiegel573]

Clearly haven't read or understood Spinoza. Like him or hate him, there is no possible way to accuse him of plagiarism (most especially of the Greeks). Leibniz of course was suspected of having plagiarized Spinoza's work, the Ethics. Perhaps that is your confusion. Then again, anyone who doesn't recognize Hume (as one example of many) as a significant Enlightenment philosopher has other blindspots. Finally, if you had ever read Spinoza, you'd know that the Greeks are for the most part far easier to read than he is-- in either Latin or translation, his prose is extraordinarily opaque, but it can be done.

[@EinsteinKnowedIt]

Descartes as in the guy who reverted back to Catholicism? This after that I think before i a light bulb hit him in the toosh? We need to revert to that confused nutcase?. Are you kidding me?

[@lennylobstar2692]

Plagiarized who? I would like to learn more plz

[@palladin331]

@Spinoza Pantheism and psycho-parallelism do not appear in Spinoza's writings either.

[@keungoklee1999]

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