The Nature of All Things: Spinoza’s Philosophical Odyssey
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
Professor of philosophy Colin Bodayle joins Breht to dive into the profound, unique, and almost mystical philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Together, they discuss the value of philosophy for all of us, Spinoza as a "philosopher's philosopher", his life and death in 17th century western Europe, his complex geometrical structure of writing, God as Nature as Substance, his forward thinking politics, Atheism and Pantheism, what Spinoza thinks a good life is, Stoicism and Buddhism, Marx and Engels connection to Spinoza, dialectical materialism, the underlying interconnectedness of all being, Breht's wild metaphysical speculation, the nature of consciousness, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. |
| 0:08.1 | On today's episode, we have a fascinating, fun, entertaining, and deep conversation with philosopher Colin Baudale about the philosophy of Spinoza. |
| 0:20.1 | We talk about dialectics, dialectical materialism, |
| 0:23.6 | the strain of thought going from Spinoza through Hagell to Marx and Angles. We talk about, |
| 0:28.8 | obviously, lots of Buddhism, the metaphysics of Spinoza, nature and God as simultaneous |
| 0:35.3 | concepts, as synonymous, and just so much more. |
| 0:39.6 | This is a really fascinating conversation. |
| 0:41.9 | Whether you're very well read in Spinoza philosophy or brand new to it, I think you will |
| 0:47.2 | 100% get something useful and fascinating out of this wonderful discussion. |
| 0:53.9 | So I'm really, really excited to release this. |
| 0:56.8 | And just based on this episode alone, I know that Colin and I will continue to work together |
| 1:01.8 | and do these sorts of episodes because he is truly a kindred spirit when it comes to philosophy, |
| 1:08.0 | our love of Marxism, et cetera. |
| 1:10.0 | So I really am excited to introduce Colin to people that don't know him and to this conversation more broadly. |
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