Tag Archives: Spinoza
The Night of Broken Glass
This November it will be exactly 80 years ago that a wave of anti-Jewish savagery and destruction broke out across Nazi occupied Europe on November 9 and 10 in 1938. Known as the Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, after the shards … Continue reading
Posted in People, Politics & Culture
Tagged Adolf Hitler, genocide, herd instinct, instinct versus reason, Kristallnacht, mass violence, mass-manipulation, Spinoza, state-sponsored violence
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Mind Over Matter
In a recent Scientific American article dated April 19 titled “Should Quantum Anomalies Make Us Rethink Reality?” Bernardo Kastrup muses over the fact that inexplicable lab results may be telling us we’re on the cusp of a new scientific paradigm. … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Science & Religion
Tagged Bernardo Kastrup, Kant, mental realm, objective knowledge, Paradigm Shift, physical realm, Quantum Anomalies, Schopenhauer, scientific observation, Spinoza, subjective knowledge, Thomas Kuhn
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The Substance of the World
Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish extraction who lived from 1632-1677. Spinoza strongly rejected the notion of a providential God – the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, in complete control of all things; he claims that the … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropomorphic God, Christian-Judaeo, cosmos, Einstein, God, religion, Spinoza, substance
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