You recorded that much in one take??? You are an amazing speaker. I recently discovered your channel through your productivity content but I really enjoyed this kind of content too ❤️

We're all little yarn balls of ourselves, and we've got to not tangle too much to the point we loose ourselves and our value. We've got to tangle ourselves into a masterpiece with another person with each part of ourselves and theirselves making the artwork, while preserving our own color that we have as a yarn ball. Anyways, honestly love the entire video essay. At 1st I wasn't too interested with the build-up but the way you explained it slowly made it speak to me. Thanks :DDDDD Actually wasn't expecting to think this much at night but here I am hahaha.

The first 12 minutes straight you spoke my mind. I am someone who's always having trouble explaining my ideas. Sometimes I don't want to and sometimes I want but dont know how to. I'd really appreciate you making a video on how to communicate with others efficiently. I know there are tons of videos on it. But I'll love to see yours!

As a former math undergrad, listening to this crash course on the philosophy really gives a lot of background lore to the mathematical concepts and theorems

Recently had some friendship troubles and realized the harsh reality of the difficulty of adult friendships. Thank you for this timely video

This dude's style is immense.

Haven’t even watched the video yet but I know it will be amazing just like your other video essays. Thank you as always!

Gosh, I am loving your current content so much. It's so freaking good!

I’m a recent subscriber and I love your videos! I like to read philosophy in my free time and now I’m adding Spinoza to my reading list

Fully diving into this kins of videos is truly an experience. Thanks for being such a joy to watch!

Loved this video! Your aspiration to show the practical use of philosophy in a simple and concise manner is admirable and inspiring.

The way I left my calculus hw to watch this masterpiece!

Great video! Greetings from Spain. Love how you turn the theorical philosophy into practical and everyday advice. Keep it up!

I love the idea of the practical power of philosphy. I feel it give me better mental model on how things works and how to interact with them. Great content. I will check your other video essays!

It makes sense that friendship would be a major theme for Spinoza. It was supposed "friends" of his who deliberately probed him for unusual ideas and then turned Spinoza in to the Synagogue authorities and got him excommunicated.

I pretty much like this approach in your videos, the practical use of philosophy in life. Please do keep doing this kind of videos more often

Really enjoying your videos. Thanks so much.

Like many others in the comments, new subscriber here! Appreciate all your content and find myself playing catch up watching a lot of your old videos. Looking forward to more of your work 🙌🏼

Super informative video. so much substance. thanks bro!

can’t wait to watch this video later, i know it’ll be great as usual. i really really need to make better friends, so this will be interesting for me

we, this is the second video on this channel & for sure I am going to watch the rest great

i find friendship a bit of a myth... friends should be taken as temporary, based on the fact that the changing flux of humanity implies friendships are constantly changing. enjoy the friendships as they come, and don't worry about them as they go. from experience I find that the majority of humans are selfish and self centred, and the only ones that have true staying power are family... a general healthy family will love each other, hate each other, shout at each other, occasionally even physically fight each other, yet at the end of the day, the depth of understanding that these situations create, in turn create a deep meaningful bond, and selfishness is sometimes amplified with family, but ultimately it is decreased, when the proverbial hits the fan, you can usually depend on family to quite a large extent..... but with friendship, it is based on love and good times, and even a bit of a helping hand through hard times, but when you begin to hate or argue with friends, it is pretty much over... the bonds do not run deep enough to move on and let it be water under the bridge, and even if you do manage to move on and let it be water under the bridge, there is always a vein of resentment that basically ensures the friendship can only be shallow from thereon in. friends are valuable and wonderful things, but we desire friendship to be deep and meaningful, and what i am saying is that friendship is generally a very weak chain...and family is a very strong chain. if you unfortunately did something heinous, a heinous crime, expect no visits in prison from your friends, but also expect your mother, father and siblings to visit you often. as long as we know this.... then we can enjoy all friendships and all family, but be under no illusion.

wow, you make an awsome teacher.

This is an inspiring video. I wonder how Spinoza's approach to friendship would hold up against or with modern psychology (where do our core values come from? Are they worth preserving or is change a good thing? and so on) for example with Bowlby's attachment theory. I'd also like to challenge the interchangeable use of limited and finite. Can't we be limited and in-finite at the same time (like a circle as a shape limited by it's diameter and such, but holding an infinite number of corners)? On a different note, I noticed you saying "in a sense" quite often (unnecessarily?) and I'm not sure if you're conscious of that. Despite that I do really like your style of presenting and explaining fairly complex concepts in a crisp and clear way. Always looking forward to more such videos.

This waa great! Have you consider reading Pascal's Pensées? I think you would enjoy very much of his writtings too.

i feel like I need to get a fire place now so i can think. ha. that was really good r.c. currently reading discourse at the moment and you really clarified. i'm also using the cartesian method to get over a recent break-up and it's working wonders...😉

Spinoza have been my favorite philosopher,ever since i got into it

Could you make a list of some really good books you’ve read? I really want to get into philosophy, but I’m not sure where to start. It would be pretty cool if you could make a video in that as well.

god i love your content! though i wish you have a podcast too.

Plz make a video on self discipline and consistency🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

this guy is undefeated 💪

More videos about philosophy, please, where you discuss the main problems of different periods. Why not go to the antiquity? Socrates, Plato, Aristotel. Video about one of these guys please

One thing that has to be said about Descartes is that he did not think about his method as universal. He believed it worked for him but saw no reason to believe it should work exactly the same for everyone.

BRAVO! i loved this video, thank you so much.

Pollock is indispensable for Euclidean concise Spinoza. Wait to square that 'isosceles circle' Benedictus after spending an enjoyable evening with Sir Frederick; perhaps Aquinas should also be invited. Summa, Ethic III. A little pause for the cause.

You said that by meeting someone that doesn't MATCH YOUR ENERGY you become kinda someone else... So I say that maybe that 'someone else' is the other person, I mean maybe you're trying to become the person you're meeting just to please him, as you said "we love to meet people we click with", in psychology we call this: mirroring technique. My question is: Don't you think that by meeting someone who matches your energy, in some cases (not all of them) the roles are kinda reversed? and basically that someone is trying to become you??

read a book for 20 mins every time he says "in a sense", you'll complete that book in no time.

Este es mi fav de Tractus Emendatione del Intellectus

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If we do not hang out with people who think differently from us, how do we grow? And how do we know who's "adequate views" are the most beneficial way of thinking?

Please make a podcast someday 😽

What if you meet someone who would’ve vibed with you but they are too afraid to show their true selves

This may be one of those banal Instagram wisdoms, and I'm not sure if the line can always be clearly drawn, but in general: try to surround yourself not with people who want something FROM you but who want the best FOR you. The former may have other qualities that make them fun to be around so long as you give them what they want, but will tend to stymie your growth as a human being once you stop catering to their wants.

I very much appreciate you inspiring people to look into Spinoza's philosophy, which (despite the difficulties of its presentation for a modern reader) is quite inspiring. However, I'm not sure I agree with some of your key points. Firstly, you present Spinoza's anti-Cartesianism in terms of Spinoza denying our direct epistemic access to God, because the realm of God and the realm of the human mind (or more importantly the intellect) are separate from each other. Secondly, you characterize the Doctrine of Parallelism in terms of the separation between the realm of God and the realm of the human mind. I can understand you drawing this separation between God and the human mind if you're a proponent of the subjectivist reading of God's attributes (Ethics IDef.4), where God's nature is in itself incomprehensible, and the attributes are merely features that the human mind imposes on God's nature as if they were the constituents of His essence. However, the objectivist reading, which (roughly-speaking) considers the attributes the genuine constituents of God's essence is the mainstream position in the literature. Yitzhak Melamed in "The Building Blocks of Spinoza’s Metaphysics" and Noa Shein in "The False Dichotomy" both provide valuable defenses of this latter position (although Shein argues that Spinoza's actual view doesn't fit the traditional subjectivist and objectivist readings), based on passages from the Ethics such as IP4Dem, IP10S, IP19-20, IP31Dem, IIP7S, and IIP47. There is also strong evidence that Spinoza is committed to the Principle of Sufficient Reason, that is the strict intelligibility of everything (including God) in IAx.3-4 and IP11Dem.2. Michael Della Rocca explores this idea in detail in his book, Spinoza. Spinoza also bases his epistemology and ethics on adequately (i.e. truly or clearly and distinctly) understanding God's nature as extended and thinking being (IIP1-2, 32, 38-42, 45-7; IVP28; VP42). Admittedly, God's essence seems to, in principle, consist of an infinite number of attributes (IDef.6Expl.; IP10S), so we definitely don't have epistemic access to God's whole nature, but Descartes doesn't think we understand everything about God, either. If anything, Spinoza actually thinks we can understand more about God than Descartes, since the former argues that God is reality or the universe itself (IP14; VP24). Spinoza also argues (IP15; IIP5, 10-11C) that our finite minds are part of God's infinite intellect, because we are not substances (i.e. beings which exist independently of God) but rather modes of God (i.e. particular instantiations of God's nature, in this case particular instantiations of God as thinking being). The Doctrine of Parallelism (IIP7) states that Extension and Thought (as well as the infinite number of other attributes), the causal chain of extended things and the causal chain of thinking things, and particular bodies and minds, are respectively different, but strictly corresponding, aspects of the same underlying thing. Parallelism is not about the realm of God as a distinct thing running in parallel to the realm of the human mind as a distinct thing. You're right that Spinoza is concerned about humans erroneously applying their own perspectives to God (IP8S, 15S; IApp.; IIP40S2), thereby forming confused (and largely false) conceptions of God, but this is the result of the imagination (namely, experiential cognition), not the intellect (i.e. reason and intuition as adequate forms of knowledge). I included citations to show the evidence for my reading of Spinoza. I would sincerely like to know what passages are guiding your description of Spinoza in the video, so I can better understand your position. On the religious front, Clare Carlisle's book, Spinoza's Religion, provides a valuable analysis of how Spinoza reconceptualizes religion in relation to his metaphysics and ethics. Despite the abovementioned criticisms though, I do find the last third of the video valuable for a layman audience! :) Spinoza inspires us to think deeply about the nature of the world, our emotions, and our interactions with others for the sake of stably and optimally empowering ourselves physically and intellectually. When we cooperate with (and strive to understand) each other and learn together (as you're doing with this channel), we all become mutually empowered!

Descartes uses a variation of Anselm's argument. First Descartes starts with his doubt, then finds corgito ergo sum, then uses Anselm's argument to posit God, then he uses God's goodness from Anselm's argument to posit epistemic reliability to the level where we can contradict the Cartesian/solipsistic doubt. I would have redone your explanation of Descartes proof of God.

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Don't watch and go out and make friends!

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(obviously not in line with the religious thinking of the 17th century) Since humans created God, is not God a human idea too, therefore there is actually no "God's plane" and "Human's plane", but just one plane from where all ideas are generated (be it the number 2, the triangle, or God)?

West:- let's talk about actions and it's various realms . East:- let's understand the F**K is the actor!!

I think that you should be aware that Spinoza came from a background that was not Christian--it was Jewish. Specifically Sephardic. You really can't understand Spinoza's starting understanding of God without understanding what this means, together with the pain of excommunication that resulted from his ideas.

The video is very interesting, however, when you are atheist (like myself) this whole debate between Descartes and Spinoza is meaningless.

Always compelling R.C. I think even the statement that "God is perfection" is questionable. Everything around the topic is questionable in my opinion 🤔. However necessary or helpful. I think humans tend to strive to be their better selves when the construction of faith is in place. Even if it's something like Buddhism which to me at it's foundation of a philosophy to lead a good life or be your best self. I personally believe in God although I don't limit myself to biblical teachings. Regardless I think these conversations are always good to ponder in my opinion.... Thank you for your mindful thoughts. 🙏

that idea of spinoffs of adequate ideas and inadequate ideas is even talked about in the Bible a bit. the Bible is the word of God but not the Word of God. Jesus biggest opponents were the pharisees because they were hypocritical. Jesus wanted us to practice what he preached. which would show that his teachings weren't the way too fully know God but as you said like a signifier. Acting these out would bring you into deeper relation with God.

I want a few friends but i prefer my own space and am pretty awkward and shy and avoid eye contact :/

Frankly, I don’t care about the philosophical blabber that does not relate to the title at all

Ppl have friends these days?!?

We will all die one day. The intelligent one is the person who prepares for his life after death, through the worship of Allah, The One True God. Our Creator didn't just create us and left us without anything, He sent down His words to us that is the Qur'an. And anyone who approaches this book with an open heart and mind and apply what they learn and teachbit to others will become the best of people ❤️

Is this guy taking the piss?

you don't need spinoza for any of this.

how to make friends step 1: don't dress like waldun