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Man, Spinoza is my god!
Oct. 31st, 2005 08:13 pmI like knowing I'm reading something condemned as evil. *laughs*
His attack on the clergy, God and the Bible is just so funny! It's like, "WTF, people can say things like that?!"
I loved the line "it follows that Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculatation or philosophical reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind."
While I don't totally have an opinion on what he's saying, I find it absolutely hilarious the things he points out. Like loving your neighbour is the extent of obedience to God or that the prophets were all just really creative people. I do like his rejection of obedience to divine law and piety should be out of moral law instead but he is a bit harsh. I can see why people condemned it...
I mean, it's clear the guy was brilliant and the fact that he had the guts to put something like this out back in the 17th Century when religion was a much larger part of life and when freedom of speech was respected much less is something noteworthy. I don't believe in God and I do kinda agree with him but at the same time, I can see why he pissed off everyone with his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. If I were a philosphy major, I would so love to study him and his Ethics, especially since Ethics is supposed to be his absolute masterpiece.
Ah, well, I don't have time to be spending on this, even though I really do want to read more of it. I'll do it when I try to fall asleep tonight. I only got 4.5 hours last night with all my bio studying... Tonight, lab report that is touted to be about 2.5-3 hours long. I will do that, try to study chapter 9 for Orgo and then do Spinoza. Yosh, that sounds like a plan!
edit x1: A reason to actually use AOL - The AOL Radio! I have been so out of touch with American/English songs since I've gone to college... I wouldn't be able to name one top 20 song at all... This help though.
His attack on the clergy, God and the Bible is just so funny! It's like, "WTF, people can say things like that?!"
I loved the line "it follows that Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculatation or philosophical reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind."
While I don't totally have an opinion on what he's saying, I find it absolutely hilarious the things he points out. Like loving your neighbour is the extent of obedience to God or that the prophets were all just really creative people. I do like his rejection of obedience to divine law and piety should be out of moral law instead but he is a bit harsh. I can see why people condemned it...
I mean, it's clear the guy was brilliant and the fact that he had the guts to put something like this out back in the 17th Century when religion was a much larger part of life and when freedom of speech was respected much less is something noteworthy. I don't believe in God and I do kinda agree with him but at the same time, I can see why he pissed off everyone with his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. If I were a philosphy major, I would so love to study him and his Ethics, especially since Ethics is supposed to be his absolute masterpiece.
Ah, well, I don't have time to be spending on this, even though I really do want to read more of it. I'll do it when I try to fall asleep tonight. I only got 4.5 hours last night with all my bio studying... Tonight, lab report that is touted to be about 2.5-3 hours long. I will do that, try to study chapter 9 for Orgo and then do Spinoza. Yosh, that sounds like a plan!
edit x1: A reason to actually use AOL - The AOL Radio! I have been so out of touch with American/English songs since I've gone to college... I wouldn't be able to name one top 20 song at all... This help though.
