Baruch de Spinoza was a highly original thinker and his Ethics provides an interesting analysis of the human condition. In this episode of Philosophy Bites Susan James discusses Spinoza's views on the passions.
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I really enjoyed Susan James' explanation of Spinoza's view of passion, it's a adequately simplified summary of it, but I disagree with her understanding of Spinoza's God. It's not exactly that I disagree with her directly but how she explained or expressed it. Yes God is everything but this is a very simplistic and generalized statement of Spinioza's God. Anyways I still enjoyed this.
Posted by: Paul So | November 06, 2010 at 05:37 PM