Thank you for your excellent podcast, giving us an overview of the importance of Spinoza's philosophy. As a student of Spinoza's philosophy, I have studied Spinoza's Ethics extensively, and I believe to really understand Spinoza, you must live his ideas. I have more than a theoretical concept. After 40 years of work, I now teach, mentor, and coach those who want to live, understand, and love as Spinoza did.

@Mindful_Philosophy

12 сағат бұрын

welcome and glad you enjoy it

I agree with Spinoza about the rampant anthropomorphism of God in the Old Testament. As for whether or not "desire" is beneath God, it seems to me, that God desiring for us to love him just as he loves us, ought to be okay, from a divine perspective.

I tend to agree with Spinoza's conception of God. God is perfect and infinite, and above the petty emotions, foibles, attributes and tendencies of human beings. The concept of God as characterzied in the Abrahamic religions is therefore misguided.

We must become stewards of LIFE itself, in all its forms.

@Mindful_Philosophy

8 ай бұрын

indeed

substantial identity of The Thought and The Being

@Mindful_Philosophy

7 ай бұрын

thank you , welcome

What a crazy coil name, Spinoza! Spinning oz before the wizard of oz was put to film.

I think Spinoza was correct! Even in the Bible it says: "I the Lord do not change" and Brahman in Hinduism is changeless and the origin of all things. Personally I see reality as Indra's net without the "jewels". That's an infinite complete graph. And the manifested reality can be seen as a changeless subgraph of Indra's net with infinite intelligence. Time is produced because infinity can never be reached.

@IvanKaramazov-zv6mn

23 күн бұрын

Yet religions drastically failed to explain as coherent like Spinoza. We owe a great deal to him.

@sanathansatya1667

20 күн бұрын

@@IvanKaramazov-zv6mn Religion is based on beliefs laid by the proponents. Even metaphorical explanations will lead to dogmas in the followers. Religion in its attempt to address illogical minds is creating chaos at a higher philosophical level .

@krishnanbala2858

9 күн бұрын

COMMENT. Philosophy is a product of idle mind. We take birth, live and die devoting each minute in the phase we are sailing in. Where is the question then, what was before and what is after, which any way is not going to impact our mind or body - the only dimensions we perceive ? Just unnecessarily creating other dimensions and trying to pose questions and imagine solutions which are any way not going to help us in day to living, earning our bread and shelter ? Spinoza did not go even that far.

@sanathansatya1667

9 күн бұрын

@@krishnanbala2858 This is what all other animals and lower life is doing. We are not much different from them. But what is questioning and where the curiosity is popping up is not in our hands . It takes its own evolutionary course. Questioning, imagining, amazement, wonderment, exploration are the qualities of the human mind. The human mind cannot be shut to a vegetative state.

@Anders01

9 күн бұрын

@@krishnanbala2858 I don't know much about Spinoza's ideas but my view is that manifested reality is all in the single now moment. Time flows forward as the manifested information keeps expanding. Both in predictable (based on the past) and unpredictable (strong emergence) ways.

It's crazy how I've always had these thoughts as a Christian, which led me to become an atheist, without even having heard of Spinoza or his argument😮

you row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, GOD is but a DREAM !!!

@jeannedouglas9912

15 күн бұрын

Yet there is a spirit of love and truth.

@huizhechen3779

4 күн бұрын

@@jeannedouglas9912 There are aspirations of love & truth

Glad this video is back

Thank you for this extensive talk on this fantastic philosopher.

@Mindful_Philosophy

11 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Excellent illustration ❤

This presentation is good for discussions of history, the discussion of or about GOD and HIS CREATION it centers on GOD'S WILL aka "LIFE" and HIS "RATIONAL CREATURES" "MAN" and GOD'S gift, "FREE WILL", enter the freedom to oppose HIS DIVINITY, thus the "Fallen Angel". Most of Humanity chose the persuasions of the latter. Hence the functions of the manipulations of the written word and assurance of the erasura of the accomplishments of the Egyptians "Schools" of HIGHER Learning" based on the "REVENGE" against BLACK people, the ORIGINAL HUMAN Creation.

@Mindful_Philosophy

3 ай бұрын

thank you welcome to the channel

Effective and illuminating illustration of the distinction between substance, attributes, and modes. The monism shines through this visual crutch.

@Mindful_Philosophy

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, @Zippy1940 ! I'm glad you found it helpful , Monism indeed takes center stage, and I appreciate your engagement with the content,.welcome to channel

If an intelligent eternal Being has universal imagination and cosmic creativity, then that self-contained Being might desire to create Imperfect beings/humans. Giving the perfect eternal Being/God, a self challenge, to enlighten and have the imperfect humans to embrace and be like God. Therefore, divine God has a will --- a spiritual will for humans to attain the higher ways of heavenly paradise.

@Mindful_Philosophy

8 ай бұрын

hope you enjoy the podcast

Good podcast as usual, thank you

@Mindful_Philosophy

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening

Thanks

@Mindful_Philosophy

6 ай бұрын

Welcome @mutthuselvam7610

Good Podcast about Spinoza thanks

@Mindful_Philosophy

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening

good ride

@Mindful_Philosophy

7 ай бұрын

you are welcome

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God has not created any human being in his own image, what he has created, self-aware and intelligent, is the air that surrounds the earth, and man or any other creature owes his self-awareness and intelligence to this air. in which they are all immersed, and that self-aware, intelligent creator who created the entire universe is nothing or anyone but the unique, incomparable space of the sky.

God I.S. the Will. Willing the Information System. Infinity Squared.

God gives freewill to man to adore him. Without freewill there is no purpose to life. We co create our world and our karma in this system of purification. The vengeful god is a lie based on the ancient summerian controlers etc. A god who must be adored is not truly adored. I believe i adore i hope and i worship thee i pray for those who do not believe who do not adore who do not hope who do not worship thee.

What exactly are you referring to when you use the word God?

If God doesn't/can't have desires, why/how did he desire to create the world? It seems we're always working with incomplete and unclear definitions to construe what we're talking about.

@MrJamesdryable

5 ай бұрын

Is it possible that existence always was? No governor?

Thank you 😊 autobiography of a yogi 😊

Q: Why is God Indifferent to Our Choices? A: Because there is no "God", only the indifferent amoral universe. Simple question with a simple answer. Nothing more need be said.

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@Mindful_Philosophy

3 ай бұрын

Spinoza's concept of God as a unified substance that encompasses everything in existence might seem divergent from the anthropomorphic deity depicted in traditional religious texts. However, Spinoza's aim is not to negate the Tanakh but to offer a philosophical reinterpretation that reconciles reason with faith. In his view, God's "will" is not akin to human volition but rather unfolds through the natural laws governing the universe.

@hemdanissan9289

3 ай бұрын

@@Mindful_Philosophy It is true that the laws of nature and creation are the expression of God's will, but as a Jew, Spinoza learned the Bible, and in the Bible, the founding fathers of the nation of Israel, and the prophets, reveal to us the will of God, not only in nature, but specifically what God expects from human beings as individuals, and as a nation. I find it very strange that Spinoza speaks of the attributes of God while simply ignoring the prophesies of the Bible, and the dialogue between God and humans. God revealed Himself to Abraham and Moses for a purpose. Of course God has a will.

@Mindful_Philosophy

3 ай бұрын

@hemdanissan9289 in Spnoza's view, God's will is not anthropomorphized or contingent upon individual human interactions as depicted in biblical narratives. FORHIM God's will is expressed through the immutable laws of nature, which govern the universe in a rational and deterministic manner. Spioza's departure from the anthropomorphic conception of God found in traditional religious texts allows for a deeeper exploration of the natural order and the underlying principles that govrn existence. Rather than focusing on specific divine commands or prophecies. welcome to the channel

So Spinoza suggest that ppl make God according to their reason, experiences and understanding. Now. Is all of this what he talks about God, which is of course different from general opinion, isn't it a projection of Spinoza's limited perception, reasoning and understanding? Or... these features of Spinoza were unlimited? Cause if they were limited than his critique about anthropomorphic mistake while thinking of God is against himself.

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Ahh, how we all love to speculate. True, God lacks nothing. True, religion is used to dominate.. False, if we should believe we understand God or know "perfect".

God torn apart by human , God only not for you. But dharma

We are ruled by our hormones

I always find it funny when people believe the devil gave man free will because of the tree of knowledge. The main issue is God told Adam and Eve they were to not eat the fruit. You can’t have temptation without choice. As for the tree of knowledge I think the name is self exclamatory. Knowledge is neither benevolent or malevolent, its what you do with the knowledge that matters.

@exaucemayunga22

2 ай бұрын

God wanted them to stay ignorant. If they were indeed ignorant, that means they didn't know that eating the fruit was wrong.

@ace_ofchaos9292

2 ай бұрын

​@@exaucemayunga22 The issue with your claim is that not all knowlage is good. Not to mention the reason kids are eased into adulthood is because studies have shown children who are exposed to sex and other adult things early often grow up tramatized. One perfect example of knowlage not being inheranly good is Socialism in general. It has never worked, people who claim it's never been truely tried are delusional and its caused more suffering than any other ideology in human history. Heres an example, ever have your own parents tell you NOT to do something only to do it anyways? I bet at least once you've disobeyed them. As people grow up they begin to understand the reasons why their parents tell them not to do things. Children are stupid and I bet adam and eve had the brains of children.

@exaucemayunga22

22 күн бұрын

@Reso-pn7kr if God is all powerful, how can he not get what he want?

@exaucemayunga22

22 күн бұрын

@Reso-pn7kr read the Old Testament and tell yourself that God is simply spirit. The dude has a mouth, eyes, hands, feet, a back, can eat, can fight, and can feel every human emotion (except horniness). Your God can talk, walk, rest, etc... He even lost a fight to Chemosh in 2 Kings 3. Read your damn Bible instead of throwing arguments you hear from apologists.

@exaucemayunga22

21 күн бұрын

@@Reso-pn7kr exactly. It's all in your mind, like all the other religions.

When it comes right down to it... You believe in God.. or you pretend that you don't.

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Do you not realize that's an Xenophanes wrote all of that about the anthropomorphic God over 2000 years before?

Man did create god in his own image, Spinosa saw right thru that, but why does he still think there is such a thing as a god if he already understood we invented it ourselves...

@Mindful_Philosophy

8 күн бұрын

but to Spinoza, God and Nature are one and the same (Deus sive Natura). This means that God is not a personal, anthropomorphic entity, but rather the underlying reality and order of existence itself. So, even though humans may have anthropomorphized God, Spinoza’s idea of God is more about understanding the natural order and the interconnectedness of everything in the universe.

Why god is indifferent to our choices? Because there is no god and that is the best explanation why god does not give a hoot.

Is it God or Nature or is it God or Reason?

@Mindful_Philosophy

5 ай бұрын

God OR = Nature

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Nihil est in iñtelectu quod non fuerit in sensu nisi intelectus ipše .

Find your inner God first, then talk. Does your cell inside your body recognize you as God? Our body is living inside this earth or universe. So now, think again.

I simply find the use of ‘He’ and like pronouns awkwardly placed in Spinoza’s dialectic.

@Mindful_Philosophy

5 ай бұрын

@marcussord5290 Thank you for your feedback. We'll consider

Who knows the mind of an omniscient and all powerful god? All who presume to know the mind of a god are delusional.

What up wit it, the new answers are the questions we ask!

@Mindful_Philosophy

5 ай бұрын

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Spinoza seems to have a partially Catholic view of things but gets off somewhat when he says God IS the universe and does not create deliberately. He's close then veers off into the weeds.

@Mindful_Philosophy

5 ай бұрын

;-)

God's will rules the world

Of course God has a will, a desire and He revealed his will through the Bible. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before[a] me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands[b] of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 13 “You shall not murder.[c] 14 “You shall not commit adultery. 15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

@gerryhanly3194

2 ай бұрын

You are assuming that the Bible is the word of God and not the writings of ancient minds who didn't know what they were talking about.

@hemdanissan9289

2 ай бұрын

@@gerryhanly3194 Do you think you can simply erase the word of God, the Bible, and still presume you can describe philosophically what God is about? No. God is described in the Bible. There is no other God, or a "philosophical" invented God. God has given us the Bible and traditions and prophets so that we know who is God and what he wants from us.

@gerryhanly3194

2 ай бұрын

Hemda, what about all the Gods people believed in before the Bible God like Odin, Thor, Apollo, Olokun, Amun-Ra, etc etc all of whom have been consigned to the graveyard of mythology which is where the Monotheistic God also belongs.

@hemdanissan9289

2 ай бұрын

@@gerryhanly3194 The Bible spends a great deal of time talking about the other false Gods, that people worshipped. They were false!! You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully,16so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,17or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air,18or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below.19And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars--all the heavenly array--do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.20But as for you, the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.

@hemdanissan9289

2 ай бұрын

@@gerryhanly3194 , their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets. 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. 28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

I too was enamored of Spinoza for years until I realized that he knew nothing of real life. He died a forty-four-year-old virgin.

@Mindful_Philosophy

Ай бұрын

may be virgin mean more pure ...

@IvanKaramazov-zv6mn

23 күн бұрын

Why should he have cared about sleeping around with women when he could dedicate his life on writing Ethics? I would trade half my life to become a genius if I could to produce a great work for humanity. Perhaps, the world need more virgins like Newton and Spinoza than people like Casanova.

@PastafarianPriest

23 күн бұрын

@@IvanKaramazov-zv6mn Not "sleeping around," silly. Baruch, who was indeed an unparalleled genius as some of us have noted (and whom I still love), never knew the joys of sex. He never knew the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood. There's an old expression, which I believe comes from the Zohar: "A man without a woman is half-a-man."

@IvanKaramazov-zv6mn

23 күн бұрын

@@PastafarianPriest Alright, your OP made it seem like you were degrading him based on his chastity. But still, I doubt he'd be able to finish his work if he had a family to look after, or even if, as masterfully as he had.

@PastafarianPriest

23 күн бұрын

@@IvanKaramazov-zv6mn That's a fair point. Thanks so much.

This podcast is heresy and apostacy

@Mindful_Philosophy

3 ай бұрын

Respectfully, this channel focuses on philosophy and philosophers, aiming to provide educational content. It explores various perspectives, including those of philosophers who both believe and do not believe in God. While it may challenge certain religious beliefs, its intent is to foster critical thinking and understanding rather than promote heresy or apostasy. Thank you for sharing your concerns