Been reflecting on the fact that Spinoza was a working lens grinder while rebooting western philosophy on the side On other side, Leibniz was designing bridges and a computer while inventing calculus and resisting the reboot Both revealing activities. Instrumentation vs design
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Replying to @vgr
It’s one of the reasons we should take seriously philosophical writing by people like Ray Dalio (on first principles thinking), Ted Kaczynski (on criticism of techno utopianism), and Mark Zuckerberg (on free speech) even if it seems a little cringe in the moment.
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Replying to @mikewavsz @vgr
By “take seriously” I mean “judge on their merits” as opposed to discounting them because, whatever else we think about them, they’re not the sort of minds we’d expect this kind of thinking to come from.
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Replying to @mikewavsz @vgr
Interesting examples, I wonder if the parallel to Spinoza would be a more working-class person like Murray Bookchin [auto worker] or Eric Hoffer [longshoreman]. Supporting their unread-ed-ness, I've not read either.
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Replying to @beatnikpicnic @vgr
I haven’t either — I was going for the class of “amateur philosophers” as opposed to “working-class philosopher”, though now i’m intrigued by that angle as well. I’ll check them out!
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Spinoza was not working class, he just chose to become a lens maker.
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