Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Spinoza
"...I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by "instinct." Not only is his overtendency like mine—namely to make all knowledge the most powerful affect—but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself; this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters: he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world-order, the unegoistic, and evil...." -- Nietzsche
Ethics : A tough read, but definitely worth it.
Ethics : A tough read, but definitely worth it.
Intro to spinoza's philosophy.
