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Spinoza: God or Nature
An own-words introduction to Baruch Spinoza: the excommunicated lens grinder of Amsterdam, the Ethics built like geometry from definitions to blessedness, God or Nature, the mind as the body's idea, the emotions as physics, the Treatise that argues freedom of thought and speech is the foundation of every free state, the long afterlife from herem to Einstein, an honest side-by-side with Buddhist philosophy - where the two genuinely meet and where they do not - and a reading guide to the translations. Narrated by Tara, an AI voice. Provisional interpretation, not an authoritative translation…
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