La vraie liberté, c'est ça
by Le Précepteur (Charles Robin)
A short episode on Spinoza that got me thinking about determinism and about the power of reason over our emotions.
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Following on from what I’m currently reading, Frédéric Lenoir’s Le Miracle Spinoza, I listened to this excerpt from Le Précepteur’s video on Spinoza.
A fine popularisation of Spinoza’s thought, focused on the value of reason. While listening, I found myself questioning determinism: it is central to the episode, yet I haven’t reached it in my reading.
Are our reactions to our emotions determined? That is the question I’m going to dig into in future reading.
That is the whole point: becoming aware of the power we all hold, reason, over the raw emotion that chains us. Reason and an understanding of reality are the keys to true freedom, the kind that leads to joy, to blessedness.
I’ll end with Spinoza’s maxim:
Not to mock, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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