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It's definitely becoming an article of its own at some point, the section is a discussion of how Spinoza's commitment to Cartesian physics means he has to develop a concept of virtue that doesn't make use of the concept of a disposition

Only the most devoted dualists can perform this party trick. Descartes couldn't do it because he didn't go far enough, never committed hard enough to the bit

Who wouldn't want to study the ideas of a man who could (allegedly) fit both of his feet behind his head?

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In this case, I’m not inclined to say that they do have any religious faith. But then, for us to call someone theistic, we (or I) must mean something more than whether someone can honestly utter the phrase “I believe in (a) God.”

Forget about 'We Other Victorians,' we never even made it out of the Enlightenment!

No love for my guys Malice and Vashtorr

I’d been assuming that they were all just joking

"The lords evidently saw less point naming the hundreds of Stock’s former colleagues at the University of Sussex who were, as the debate was taking place, living with the threat of redundancy."

!Nigel Biggar[...] declared that “too many universities have tolerated highly uncivil aggression”. In due course, Kathleen Stock became one of the very few academics – or former academics – named in the debate."

This is great, I can't wait to get a hold of your translation!

Come to think of it, the question of philosophers' religions is frequently hostile like this: there are comparable, unusually fiery debates about the religious beliefs of Hobbes, Bayle and Hume.

At least based on this article, it seems like more of a research programme than a system or thesis. Although I'm not really seeing how it's supposed to be different than (some versions of) dialectical materialism. press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050...

The Historicity of Materialism and the Critique of PoliticsThis chapter proposes one definition of critical materialism and a critique of politics based on several authors from Marx to Foucault. This critique occurs in several stages and unfolds as a criticis...press.ici-berlin.org

I know quite a few people opting for this strategy, but they tend to have one thing that I don't have: money (I'm self-funding and each year sinks me further into financial hell)