None of this is an actual argument thoughhttps://twitter.com/logo_daedalus/status/998571856209825793 …
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But I did. I'm not saying that it's impossible to argue for spinozist monism- I'm saying that the motivation for doing so is entirely alien to me & I cannot fathom believing it in a serious manner. I do the same for Scientologists & Mormons & Antinatalists etc.
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All arguments are adhominem, I am asking "what sort of person believes such things" you reply that this isn't good enough & say I am "unsophisticated"- is this not what has occurred?
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well if were solely restricted to the domain of the ad hominen, plenty of equally embarrassing people believe in pop-subjective-idealism, and their reasons for belief can be similarly deconstructed and ridiculed
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theres a much simpler example for why spinoza and his now highly diverged intellectual descendants might believe these things... because theyre interested in some kind of 'truth'
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I think it's silly to think that they're unique in this - "until then, no one had sought the truth, then came brave spinoza to prove his system, the revelation of the cosmos to itself" etc- at least in revelatory epistemologies it's not dishonest about this claim.
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Kojeve put it that Spinoza is the Christ of Spinozists. For him, Hegel's claim to have the knowledge of God was serious, & he then claimed to have divine knowledge himself. The justification for the authority of Truth is always a narrative aping of god.
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