RE: Defending Pantheism
May 3, 2019 at 8:50 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2019 at 8:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
To clarify, lol -Spinozas all and attributes were a direct rejection of the sort of unity endemic to western thought at the time, wherein the divine substance and the created substance were distinct, with mans relationship to "the all" circumscribed by a creative act and in partaking of the divine substance, in descartes dualist view...generally speaking, intellect and body as representatives of the divine and created substance.
Spinoza thought that was trash, lol. His assertion that there was only one substance was in direct response to the idea of a mind-body separation..and even more broadly, the notion that reason and emotion could somehow be fundamentally separated from each other. In short, he intuited that the mind existed for the body, and that for all of our rational puffery, reason itself was shot through with emotional pleas and baggage as a consequence of our perceptual limitations.
(ha, you got to it before I did, props)
Spinoza thought that was trash, lol. His assertion that there was only one substance was in direct response to the idea of a mind-body separation..and even more broadly, the notion that reason and emotion could somehow be fundamentally separated from each other. In short, he intuited that the mind existed for the body, and that for all of our rational puffery, reason itself was shot through with emotional pleas and baggage as a consequence of our perceptual limitations.
(ha, you got to it before I did, props)
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