Spinoza & "entropies of lovable but scatterbrained Mother Nature . . ." (GR 324).

[Ian Livingston]

Speaking of AtD, I got to thinking how Foley could be a sort of echo of
Edmund Dantes of The Count of Monte Cristo. We can choose to re-make our
world, if things aren't right.

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Nice find.
>
> I think one very arguable reading of Against the Day is that Nature, which
> may be scatter-brained
> ---infused with Chance?---must be loveable and is and may be God.
> #pantheism #panemtheism
> ala Spinoza's Ethics....
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 10, 2013, at 8:43 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > In the appendix to the first book of Ethics, Spinoza states,
> >
> > "I have now sufficiently explained my first point. There is no need to
> > show at length, that nature has no particular goal in view, and that
> > final causes are mere human figments."
> >
> >
> http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Spinoza/Texts/Spinoza/e1f.htm
>
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