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Religious reality
Thursday, 2 January 2025 at 21:14
Martin Buber
Religious reality
To Spinozists like Marx and Engels, the answer to ‘who am I?’ is - ‘you are what you have to be’. In Spinoza’s concept of God, or the One, or Ein Sof, subjectivity is subsumed within Substance, never allowing for a clear separation of the two. This was the reason why Martin Buber said that Spinoza left no room for dialogue with God. Spinoza, to whom the knowledge of God was everything, nevertheless deprived man of an essential element of religious reality: the ‘approachability’ of God or,as Buber called it, his ‘dialogue’ relation with God. And trust me, there is far more to this ‘dialogue relation’ than Buber or any other religionist would have you believe, as I hope will become apparent by the end of this book.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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Uprighting Spinoza
Wednesday, 1 January 2025 at 17:22
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Uprighting Spinoza
For Hegel everything begins with the realisation that there is something exceptional and inescapable in Spinoza’s philosophy. He wrote ‘du hast entweder den Spinozismus oder keine Philosophie’ - you have either Spinozism or no philosophy at all. When Marx ‘turned Hegel on this head’, he was in reality ‘uprighting’ Spinoza, following Fichte's inversion.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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