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There's nothing to fight about. I responded to the OP and you disagree with some of my suggestions. Okay. There are others you don't, so look into tho...

:up: March-April readings • Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro • Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour, Rickie Lee Jones • The Proph...

:point: My most memorable conversation recently with a theist IIRC turned on 'uncontested epistemological' points and went something like this: (Atheo...

I can't help you.

How about Frank Zappa & Thelonius Monk ... Pink Floyd & Return to Forever ...

Of course you don't. :roll:

It seems that you are "disrespecting" Spinoza by refusing to adequately read his work or ask questions relevant to his philosophy. This is why your "s...

Is Eugen a bot?

No. Why would he conclude that? What does "if the hard problem is true" even mean? A solution to a problem is "true" but not the problem itself. Btw, ...

What "theory" are you talking about? Spinoza was not a natural scientist and had never claimed to be one or proposed a theoretical model of ... anythi...

No. :rofl: No. :cry: E.g. Something with no flavor, such as atoms, does cause, as you say, e.g. strawberries to have flavor.

https://youtu.be/56llHoZ4NYc Violin Concerto no. 2, Sz 112 (37:57) Béla Bartók (composer), 1938 Yehuda Menuhin (violin) Fürtwangler Philharmonia Orche...

:up: Bartók & Ellington & ... too.

I'd expect Spinoza to reply, more or less, with "We'll have to wait for natural science to solve that problem." Anyway, if you won't closely read Spin...

Soma ist die Scheiße! :smirk: “I don’t know what’s gonna happen, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames, man.” ~JDM As...

No. Again, wrong question because your assumptions have nothing to do with Spinozism. And besides, metaphysics is noncognitive (re: not truth-claims a...

:chin: from my shelves: • Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce, ed. James Hoops • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wi...

You're speculating through the prism of your own quixotic metaphysics on Spinozism whereas I'm interpreting based on Spinoza's texts, so no, my friend...

So far, so good. I like my chances of holding out until the end of 2021 without succumbing.

Yeah, and I've said as much to you here (below) and on other threads. I'll let @"unenlightened" sort you out ... Don't cherry-pick to occlude me, Fool...

Okay, if you say so.

My questions too. IIRC, it has something to do with Platonic form (or Kantian categories of reason) or some such.

You're probably aware that George Eliot's translation into English of the Ethics – she had completed it before she'd written fiction and which had rem...

:up: Glad to have been of service. It took me almost a decade, after several false starts, to read through the first section to the end. Thirty-one pa...

@"Maw" – The OP asks about the ideal, not the erotic, death. :smirk: Btw, how extremely do you mean by "extremely attractive"?

Mostly, I agree; though his cherem from the Amsterdam Jewish community, I speculate, had more to do with protecting the conversos community from their...

Like coincidences. Like merely correlated events (e.g. heuristics). Like noise (sans signals). Like radioactive emissions. Like the uniqueness of each...

I'm over 50, diabetic, heavy drinker for decades, daily contact with the public through work, living in an anti-science trumpy Republican backwater (G...

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Since for Spinoza substance is infinite, or has no exterior, and eternal, or is not the effect of an external cause, and nothing ontologically transce...

:up: ¡Gracias, hombre! Hell yes! :fire:

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What about it? Without begging the question (or infinite regress), there cannot be a "sufficient reason" for the PSR (plus quantum uncertainty e.g. vi...

:shade: @"fdrake" :sweat:

I wish I could find a good, contemporary, translation in English. My German was never good enough, and when my Spanish was far less rough than it is n...

I prefer e.g. Tolkien, Graves, Borges et al ... to Jung (& his ilk) for "rich and imaginative insights", but that's me. :smirk:

Without the right (or adequate) questions you never will. I applaud your patience :clap: :100: :fire: "All things excellent are as difficult as they a...

Enjoy.

:up: Yeah, sistren!

I've given you a brief critique of Spinozism already (re: this thread, p.1, my first post – bottom paragraph) so I don't know why you'd assume I'm mer...

Nice? Mi irie now ...

It's both, like a physician's diagnosis of a patient's health which then implies a prescribed treatment and what the patient should do to complement –...

Ask a Ch'an/Zen practitioner. As the Buddha purportedly had taught his disciples :fire: On the contrary, it's more like a Pegasus without wings.

Neither. If my (& @"fdrake"'s) summary sketches are not clear enough for you, then I suggest you give up on Spinoza (assuming you've closely read and ...

Well said. To my mind, however, I suspect theists (like other "believers" in supernaturalia & ultimate realities) are more interested in anti-anxiety ...

Yeah, after a year of quarantine, police killings, political drama, mass shooting and now 'new jim crow' voter suppression, I'm feeling mentally as we...

Portland, Oregon. The move was planned for last year but the pandemic had other plans. Now my finances need time to recover. Family relocated out ther...

Welcome to TPF! Try this sketch of my aretaic-negative consequentialism on for size: Thoughts? Objections?

Still no paradox. Atheism claims 'theism is false' is true and theism claims 'g/G exists' is true. If the latter (1st order claim – independent variab...

Ignorance? It's the illusion of knowledge that's getting L O U D E R thanks to social media and 24/7 non-stop cable / satellite / streaming "bread & c...