Jonathan Israel: How Spinoza Was a Revolutionary Thinker- Stroum Lectures 2017

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Jonathan Israel: How Spinoza Was a Revolutionary Thinker- Stroum Lectures 2017

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Jonathan Israel of the Institute for Advanced Study argues that Baruch Spinoza's ideas about religion were revolutionary-- and that they paved the way for the modern human rights movement.
This lecture was presented on May 21, 2017 as part of the annual Stroum Lecture series hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, part of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
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@charlesputnam9370 2 жыл бұрын

I read a lot of philosophy when I was young. Spinoza was my favorite and had a positive affect on my life. I think Spinoza 's book Ethics is a masterpiece of world literature. Lucky for me my local library has a copy. Last time I checked it out I was the only person to check it out for 10 years.

@schmetterling4477 2 жыл бұрын

Spinoza is still confused about a lot of things and he is still afraid. He may be worth reading for a historical perspective, but certainly not as a primary source of modern humanism.

@Jack-eo5fn Жыл бұрын

@@schmetterling4477, Spinoza is confused and afraid? Explain please.

@trevorburth4589 Жыл бұрын

😊

@mikelipschitz7281 4 жыл бұрын

How can anyone study Spinoza without hearing this lecture .THANK YOU Prof

@antonioclaro4654 2 жыл бұрын

More than 500 years after, when I came of age, my mother explained to me that her family is a new christian family, that our ancestors where sephardic jews forced into christianity. And as more I gather knowledge regarding judaism more I identify characteristics in my education, in the ways of my family, that are related to judaism. With Spinoza that match is very personal, thank you!

@erickraan 3 жыл бұрын

This sort of conversation is sadly lacking in the discourse of the 21st century. Bravo meneer Israel, Bravo!

@Hermes1548 5 жыл бұрын

Israel's books on the Enlightenment are sheer Joy for the mind. He has revived it.

@miglena2s 3 жыл бұрын

Time is too short to drink from all the life-bearing fountains of knowledge. I will come to your lecture, for sure.. hopefully - rather sooner than later.

@Eudaimonia88 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing and delivered with clarity and insight. Thank you.

@stewartbrands 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@FalseFlagAmerican 3 жыл бұрын

What a delight and a complete joy. Wonderful

@basseur779 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the interesting lecture, Dr. Israel. Very inspiring.

@liberalegypt 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you gor putting English subtitles

@brauliocavalcanti3703 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, professor. Fascinating lecture

@EinsteinKnowedIt 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for keeping the master metaphysical moralist relevant.

@aldogalvan7207 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Prof.

@jiqbalg 3 жыл бұрын

Marvelous enlightening lecture

@blankpage5869 6 жыл бұрын

If I can achieve half what spinoza has done, I can die in peace. The most brilliant philosopher I have read so far, followed by aristotle and david hume.

@tobiasjohnson 5 жыл бұрын

what did you find most brilliant?

@jeendabhagat9650 5 жыл бұрын

@@tobiasjohnson excelente btillant philosopher and

@EinsteinKnowedIt 4 жыл бұрын

His definition of the soul is most brilliant.

@aritovi 6 ай бұрын

Great lecture

@robinharwood5044 3 жыл бұрын

We really should call him "Benedict", not "Baruch". "Benedict" was the name he used and was published under. It is the name he was known by for most of the years since his death. "Baruch" was the name he was given in the synagogue when he was a baby, and the name under which he was cursed, reviled, and excommunicated by the synagogue. I think it is an insult to him not to use the name he chose.

@hirschowitz1 5 жыл бұрын

Superb lecture. May I recommend “Spinoza Selections” Edited by John Wild.... Thank you for posting.

@livingthedreams...647 2 жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT LECTURE...

@bradkelley8732 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if this post will get seen by anyone who might know, as it has been several years since this lecture was posted, but is the NEXT lecture of Prof. Israel available anywhere? He mentions it several times, and I would love to see it.

@bradkelley8732 2 жыл бұрын

@@StroumJewishStudies Thank you so much! I haven't checked out what it is that you do at Stroum Jewish Studies, but thank for making these available, and I will look into other things as well! I hit subscribe and Like! I grew up with racism against so many people and peoples, including Jewish people, and I will fight it anywhere and everywhere!

@janbreeden3275 3 жыл бұрын

What a great man

@adamjones3818 3 жыл бұрын

Truly a great man

@88pampa Жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@stevenyourke7901 3 жыл бұрын

He was expelled from the synagogue?! I like him already!

@2msvalkyrie529 3 жыл бұрын

So; Jesus,Marx and Spinoza all disowned by rabbinical experts ? Hmm.....can any other religion boast a similar track record. ?

@adamjones3818 3 жыл бұрын

@@2msvalkyrie529 Christianity lol

@nicolasszernek4359 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, 35:40 to introduce an idea would deserve a 2h long lecture, at least.

@Jan96106 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting lecture.

@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking Жыл бұрын

What did the Dutch have against Sicily?

@MitzvosGolem1 4 жыл бұрын

Einstein followed rabbi Spinoza theology. Sephardic a new 7th century movement.. Azkenazim a new 9th century movement. The Zohar Kabbalah a new movement.. Chassidus was a new movement... Reform haskalah a new movement.. Modern Orthodox a new movement.. Ask Yemenite or a mitzrahi from Bovel . Yidden. Ok

@StevensBorowsky 6 жыл бұрын

How is he Jewish if he wasn't Jewish according to Jewish authority? Ironic that Jews now scramble to claim Spinoza after they condemned him.

@Hermes1548 5 жыл бұрын

Very well said.

@M4chineTub3 5 жыл бұрын

The Jewish authority did not 'took' his 'Jewishness' rather did Spinoza renounced being Jewish. He's a Jewish the same way Jesus is, born to Jewish mother. Spinoza didn't think religion is a bad thing, he thought religious establishments are. Most Jews these days think the same, as most pepole of the free world.

@josefrancis7126 3 жыл бұрын

W SOMERSET MAUGHAM READ SPINOZA CLOSELY

@alecmisra4964 5 жыл бұрын

Spinoza is not significant except as a useful plagiarist for those too lazy to read the Greeks (most people). Descartes and Locke are the only significant philosophical figures of the enlightenment. Israel needs to come out of Egypts land on this matter.

@petermsiegel573 4 жыл бұрын

Clearly haven't read or understood Spinoza. Like him or hate him, there is no possible way to accuse him of plagiarism (most especially of the Greeks). Leibniz of course was suspected of having plagiarized Spinoza's work, the Ethics. Perhaps that is your confusion. Then again, anyone who doesn't recognize Hume (as one example of many) as a significant Enlightenment philosopher has other blindspots. Finally, if you had ever read Spinoza, you'd know that the Greeks are for the most part far easier to read than he is-- in either Latin or translation, his prose is extraordinarily opaque, but it can be done.

@EinsteinKnowedIt 4 жыл бұрын

Descartes as in the guy who reverted back to Catholicism? This after that I think before i a light bulb hit him in the toosh? We need to revert to that confused nutcase?. Are you kidding me?

@lennylobstar2692 4 жыл бұрын

Plagiarized who? I would like to learn more plz

@palladin331 4 жыл бұрын

@Spinoza Pantheism and psycho-parallelism do not appear in Spinoza's writings either.

@keungoklee1999 4 жыл бұрын

Deepak chopra