The web also illuminates Spinoza’s determinism. He did not believe in free will, but did believe in a type of freedom that one can attain whereby one acts more than being acted upon. That is possible only by seeing and understanding how one is determined by the casual chain of acts and responses as well as the class and political structure one is born into.
The web also illuminates Spinoza’s determinism. He did not believe in free will, but did believe in a type of freedom that one can attain whereby one acts more than being acted upon. That is possible only by seeing and understanding how one is determined by the casual chain of acts and responses as well as the class and political structure one is born into.
Loved this piece. Thanks for writing it.
Just cracked page 500 of Middlemarch on the mildmay line this morning!
Nice!!
Yes, thanks for this, concise and illuminating.
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