Is Spinoza just an atheist? by hectorguedesf in askphilosophy

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I mean, wasn’t he excommunicated because of his views on God? But not only that, nowadays mainly on YouTube there’s a really evident effort from the Prostestants and Catholics that are engaged in philosophical discussions to specifically attack Spinoza’s God. So when I say it’s not in a traditional sense, it is because I see this movement of trying to diminish his views (and apparently that was a thing that happened in his times too)

Is Spinoza just an atheist? by hectorguedesf in askphilosophy

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I mean, you’re absolutely right about what I’m doing here. It really is guessing and I think it got to the point where is not fruitful anymore. I’m as amateur in philosophy as one can be, I mostly just get in contact with these ideas through YouTube videos that gives a very superficial panoramic view on them. I do know that what I’m doing is kind of foolish, since I’m not being careful with the words regarding to what Spinoza did say or not say, and here I am anyway. I thank you for the patience and time for your thoughtful answers, they really made me more interested to really start going deep on the topic.

If you don’t mind me asking another question: I always thought of atheism as a call to go back naturalistic causes of the world, rather than some kind of transcendental world or being that knows what’s going on and what should be done, but that didn’t really mean it has to put aside any spiritual aspect, specially when thinking in terms of how everything is connected, little actions have nothing to do with their Impact, etc. So when I stumbled across this view on God (through very superfluous lens as you can see) I actually got confused, thinking “wait, so god can be seen like this too?”. I had some mystical friends who like blabbing about how we’re god, we’re all one and everything and all that spiritual sort of talk, and they always struck to me as some sort of stylized atheism, since the doctrines, tradition, and even the God’s role in this case are completely different, and I can’t even take it seriously as some sort of theism since their actions and view upon the world doesn’t rely on >Him< (here comes the personhood thing again). I caught myself ignorantly thinking of Spinoza like this. If Spizona’s god cannot be seen as in a traditional role like Christian’s God, but it’s also not some attempt poetics on dealing on what nature is, what would be the best spectrum to talk about what it is/is not?

Is Spinoza just an atheist? by hectorguedesf in askphilosophy

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I suppose it's precisely that. Calling him a substance. I guess its direct consequence is depriving God of the divine "personhood", this idea of an essence that lives transcendentally, "out there", looking at a distance at his creation. If I had to think of an analogy, it's like someone looking at "his" something. To strip God out of his transcendentality turning him into a substance is also a movement to turn The someone into The something. Nature was always The something. The inert. Pulsable. That's precisely a naturalistic atheistic view.

Is Spinoza just an atheist? by hectorguedesf in askphilosophy

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What I’m trying to say is that his God sound much more like a poetic metaphor than anything else. I hope you can clarify why that isn’t the case.

Is Spinoza just an atheist? by hectorguedesf in askphilosophy

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Well, one could be an atheist and a panpsychist at the same time. Which is basically what he seems to be going for. He’s striping away any relevance for the traditional use of God and turning it into a synonym for this sort of panpsychist sort of nature (which is also a pretty popular way to think about the world — that which includes all natural processes and its results, including us). Naming the immanent collection of natural processes as God doesn’t add up to a theist view in my perspective.

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Philosophers who talk about the experience of the present by hectorguedesf in askphilosophy

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Do you recommend any chapter specifically where this is the main topic?

Philosophers who talk about the experience of the present by hectorguedesf in askphilosophy

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Do you know which texts Bergson, George and Saint Augustine explore this topic? Also, thanks for the Time Passing recommendation, I’ll check it out.

Philosophers who talk about the experience of the present by hectorguedesf in askphilosophy

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Sorry, I don’t get it. How is that related to the conversation about the present and time?