{"id":29094,"date":"2021-10-17T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29094"},"modified":"2024-05-11T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T22:38:42","slug":"on-baruch-spinoza-read-by-charlon-heston-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/17\/on-baruch-spinoza-read-by-charlon-heston-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"On <em>Baruch Spinoza<\/em> read by Charlton Heston (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/baruchspinoza.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">After listening the Charlton Heston narrating <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/16\/on-saint-augustine-read-by-charlton-heston-1990\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Augustine<\/a><\/em>, I went right into this, skipping ahead 1200 years (although I did listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/21\/on-st-thomas-aquinas-read-by-charlton-heston-1990\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Thomas Aquinas<\/em><\/a> earlier, so I did have a medieval interlude).  <\/p>\n<p>With Baruch Spinoza, we&#8217;re coming into more modern modes of thought.  Spinoza embraces a sort of Platonism as well, but unlike St. Augustine, his does not contain a personal God.  Instead, God is distant (but present in everything) and rather inscrutible except through deep thought, as God (not a <em>he<\/em> as that is antromorphic) created everything and continues to create everything every day, but God is not responsive to mankind at all.<\/p>\n<p>So working from that point, Spinoza tries to build a set of ethics with some disappointing results.<\/p>\n<p>The course is about half biography and half deep thought, which is just about right for this lecture series.  I had to listen carefully to the bits that explored his theory of substances, modes, and attributes, and I&#8217;m pretty sure I would have to read more detail about them before I could talk intelligently about them, but rest assured, they&#8217;re Platonism in Dutch.<\/p>\n<p>The course mentions how he influenced the Romantic poets&#8211;probably in the <em>God is in Nature<\/em> lines of thought, and how he was excommunicated from his local synagogue and lived a life in relative poverty and isolation as a result.  But interesting.<\/p>\n<p>You know, many of the lecture series I have, I put on the shelf as trophies, but these are brief enough and interesting enough that I might want to listen to them again.  So long as I have continued access to a cassette deck.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A Compensated Link, So I Must Tell You:<br \/><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj00-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&#038;placement=B000GPCNUE&#038;asins=B000GPCNUE&#038;linkId=eb7d693aacdfe4749a3267de52bf173d&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After listening the Charlton Heston narrating St. Augustine, I went right into this, skipping ahead 1200 years (although I did listen to St. Thomas Aquinas earlier, so I did have a medieval interlude). With Baruch Spinoza, we&#8217;re coming into more modern modes of thought. Spinoza embraces a sort of Platonism as well, but unlike St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32716,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29094\/revisions\/32716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}