You can't get much better than the Ethics

Is he dare I say it, the greatest philosopher ever? I'm almost finished Ethics and its fucking brilliant. I have never been so awestruck but one man's supreme intelligence. Name ONE philosopher who out-did him.

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Spinoza tries to present his views about theological subjects with a great deal of restraint. There is, however, one fundamental point regarding which he consistently refuses to make any unambiguous concessions, and this is precisely the possibility of miracles as supra-natural phenomena. Whereas he speaks without hesitation of supra-rational teachings, he consistently rejects the possibility of miracles proper. If he had always rejected the possibility of supra-rational teachings, he would have had no choice but either simply to identify the Biblical teaching with the rational teaching – and this would have been fatal to the separation of philosophy from theology – or else simply to deny all truth to all Biblical teachings as revealed teachings. The utmost he could dare was not always to deny the fact of supra-rational revelation but always to deny its supra-natural or miraculous character, and he could not do this consistently or conveniently without denying the possibility of miracles altogether. To avoid the break with the Bible in the crucial point, he had to assert that the possibility of miracles proper is denied by the Bible itself. To maintain this assertion in the presence especially of the New Testament accounts of the resurrection of Jesus – of accounts which, as Spinoza admitted, are incompatible with the spiritualistic interpretation of Christianity --, he had no choice but to suggest that any Biblical accounts of miracles proper cannot be really Biblical but must be sacrilegious additions to holy writ.

what did you expect from a fucking jew

I've assumed for a while now that nearly every Jewish philosopher is ultimately nothing more than somebody asshurt that their race isn't God's chosen people any more. Think about it. From Spinoza to Freud to Foucault, it's all nothing more than petty jealousy that they had their chance to be special to God forever and fucked it up. Deconstruction? Poststructuralism? All petty shit. "If God doesn't favor us any more, we'll just deny he exists! And then we'll deny truth, since truth comes from God!"

You sound like you have never so much as read a summary of any of those guys and you get your ideas about philosophy and judaism from propaganda.

Besides why would the Jews be jealous of a bunch of goy slaves that they rule over? =^)

God. Christcucks need to get out.

it's because he's basically a pantheist in the same way, say, Anaxagoras was. God is basically a uniform endless being from which everything stems, but has no human properties.

Yo what are the best secondary studys of Ethics? I am already reading Beth Lord's reader's guide; I need something else. Is the book by Michael Della Rocca from Routledge decent?

To Spinoza nothing can be supranatural: if a miracle happens, it would become immediatly natural, according to Spinoza.

yes

>Besides why would the Jews be jealous of a bunch of goy slaves that they rule over?
Our dicks aren't mutilated, for one. Second, they believe in their own lies, and start to suffer through them. Fools.

Having foreskin
Getting to eat pork
vs
Owning 99% of the world's money and 100% of the corporations
Being the Chosen race of the evil Demon-God that created the universe 6,000 years ago
Running the porn industry and dicking goy-girls on a daily basis

I donno about the jealousy thing....

Who is that?

dumb anime poster

Spinoza. Its in the image title you fag.

Did you just said I'm a Jew ?

I wonder in what kind of world jews do all those things. Is that on Earth-616?

>Foucault
>Jew

>banality and material wealth
>Being the Chosen race of the evil Demon-God that created the universe 6,000 years ago
But it was already stated in the premise that the Jews are no longer chosen.
As social beings, being loved is important. However, to a Jew, love does not exist. I mean, heck, I can just call a Jew a Jew, and they will get a heart attack.

White people are so fucking stupid.

>Running the porn industry and dicking goy-girls on a daily basis
Who, the jews? Why do you think the jews became so white and why their teachings say that if the mother is a jew so is the kid? They are inadequate.

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As a nation of inbred rats, you grew too paranoid to assess truth.

>Foucault
Yeah, sure, Foucault is a jew and his work is all about God and deniying truth. You're so smart, user. Now go back to the Church and never get out, Christfag.

Then Another promising thread completely ruined by /pol/ tourists.

On topic (should anyone care), my copy of Ethics arrived in the post today. Funny that a topic like this should be here.

Is there a single more outspokenly stupid demographic than /pol/ posters?

No.

>thread about Spinoza
>the jew shitposting starts from the second posts
When will mod start banning stirmfag propagandists? These people should be excluded from this community at sight.
>b-but my free speech
Fuck off, if Spinoza is the subject and you go from zero to jews in 2 posts you deserve to be ostracized on the virtue of your sheer stupidity.

They're on par with botched lobotomy-survivors.

jidf out in full force to protect their golden boy. read an aryan like heidegger instead of some biblical revisionist kike

(You) in-and-of yourself

How dare they insult the chosen people!

*tip*

Heidegger had shekel-fever.

Just look at this.

/Pol/ have become the parody of themselves. That's a worse fate than any their enemies could've forced on them.

Hijacking this thread.
What philosophers do I have to read before engaging with Spinoza?

>God, or a substance consisting of infinite attributes, each of which expresses eternal and infinite essence

Lol sure buddy lmao amirite

Descartes and Hume mostly.

Hobbes had a pretty significant influence on his political philosophy.

the banality of male sexuality on display

you can laugh all the way to the helicopter, buddy

Heidegger basically invented postmodernism, a movement I'm sure you hate, you fucking retard.

Literally just Descartes.

>(((political philosophy)))

(((any philosophy)))
(((any politics)))

you will never ascend to my heights

No, he is a major part of the disease that was 'enlightenment' 'philosophy'. It is a literal dark age.

Im spamming this but I think baudrillard is the best. Especially as time goes on its more and more obvious that he nailed it with regard to the disintegration of the real. He was a total asshat but merit isn't fair. Read the spirit of terrorism and seduction and tell me that guy wasn't on to some shit. So ahead of his time were learning what he was talking about as its coming true all around us.

Spinoza is dank too though. I am a pantheist but also nihilist and trivialist. Spinoza is right there with Hume as the premier baller early modern guys. Descartes was pretty good too until chapter two of the meditations LOL

I too wish we could go back to being peasents eagerly awaiting for the local dukes to finish their 300 year war feud and hoping that the cardinal will not burn my daughter alive for the crime of witchcraft. People got suspicious of her when they found out she still had a full set of teeth, instead of a mouth full of holes.

Oh look, nothing but memes.

btw peasants only had bad teeth because bread was a big part of their diet and stone-ground bread can contain tiny particles of stone which destroy teeth.

Ah, yes, the fabled ubermencsh

Hardcore new agers.

>trivialist

Holy shit where do you brainlets keep coming from?

Ive heard a lot about rocca. I personally have the ones from beth lord and steven nadler

>Western brainlet

Aristotle

>literally just restate Aristotle and the Pre-Socratics through a Biblical lens
>somehow the greatest philosopher ever

lol no.