Spinoza's Ethics articulates better what ppl identify in Nietzsche as liberating; for Spinoza metaphysics/ethics is ultimately mobilized toward "the intellectual love of god", an ever-constructing revolutionary project of collective liberation, not some retreat into selfishnesshttps://twitter.com/BenedictSpinoza/status/1017294742114258944 …
"I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by “instinct.”" -Nietzsche