What do you think of Spinoza?
Posted: December 19th 2009
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What he inspired is better than what he actually thought, in my opinion.
His position, as far as I can gather, was that the world was entirely “in” God and could not exist without Him. Modern “Spinozan” pantheism holds instead that the universe is God, and is beholden to its own laws of physics. The only real difference between that and atheism is that you call the universe God. Richard Dawkins has called it “sexed-up atheism”.
As a different perspective on atheism, it’s not bad at all. It helps give a sense of wonder about the universe.
Posted: December 22nd 2009