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Workshop # 52, Spinoza's Ethics, Series 9,
This event begins at 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 11.30 am UK, 7.30 am NY.
You will need to view the relevant podcast below on YouTube before joining the meeting in order to participate in the discussion.
https://youtu.be/ujkf2iDrKxA
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The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Discussion notes for the topic are available by email.
THIS WEEK: Spinoza’s ethics are still widely discussed in the modern world. But is his account too dependent on classical ideas like; a realist conception of absolute knowledge ‘sub specie aeternitatis’, and a pantheistic animism in the world, for his views to be viable? Yet many of his methods remain popular today, such as a widespread rationalism and cognitivist philosophy, and a philosophical conception of God as an explanative principle, as well as replacing free will with a determinism that calls for education rather than moral condemnation. Are these developments sufficient to redeem Spinoza’s thought, or are they further reasons why it is outdated? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 4, Scn. i.
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