#spinozaism

[sivavakkiyar]

Used as the opening epigram to Deleuze’s Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

[cosmonautroger]

[polishwave]

Harda literatura.

[decompinprocess]

And so, my obsessions collide.

[shisasan]

Maybe this is how God exists - not as a being, but as the loving force of everything learning, expanding, remembering. Maybe love isn’t about gravity, but about what lingers, what ripples outward, what continues even when we’re gone.

[philosophybits]

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza, On the Improvement of the Understanding

[cinematic-literature]

Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos

Book title: Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata in Latin; 1677) by Baruch Spinoza

[philosophors]

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”

— Baruch Spinoza

[sluttyhaecceities]

"That is why the fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: "Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: "More taxes! Less bread!"? As Reich remarks, the astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves? Reich is at his profoundest as a thinker when he refuses to accept ignorance or illusion on the part of the masses as an explanation of fascism, and demands an explanation that will take their desires into account, an explanation formulated in terms of desire: no, the masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism, and it is this perversion of the desire of the masses that needs to be accounted for."

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Page 29)

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

“We feel and know that we are eternal.” - Baruch Spinoza

[venusimleder]

Vogue Italia, February 2000.

Ph. Antonio Spinoza

[xaliboo]

franz von stuck - lucifer, 1890

[geometrymatters]

The Noumenal Monad

Within the Polynon framework, nothingness is an undifferentiated cognitive space that precedes geometry and structure. It exists as a pre-geometric source, housing the unformed essence of all phenomena from which spacetime, and all its manifestations, arise. Imbued with primal noumenal potential, it is denoted as the state where all possible realities are latent, waiting to be expressed into an observable world.

A circle whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere.

The monad is a geometric construct that acts as a universal grammar of existence, mapping how the boundless noumenal potential transitions into perceptual and phenomenal dimensions while retaining coherence across all levels of manifestation.

The centre being “everywhere” signifies the Monad’s omnipresence as the locus of all potential states, embedded in every point of reality. The circumference being “nowhere” reflects its boundless architecture, transcending the constraints of space, time, and materiality, integrating infinite possibilities within a singular, cohesive structure.

The compactification process begins with the noumenal everything compressing into a singular phenomenal something, reflecting a specific instance or manifestation. This phenomenal something is inherently equal to the noumenal everything because it retains the entirety of noumenal potential, either in its un-collapsed state of infinity or as a collapsed singular “ring” dimension, compacted into a single cognitive focal point.

The only attribute of a point is that it marks position. Take away this attribute and in the unposited point we have a symbol of pure Being, the abstract noumenon, that which underlies every mode of phenomenal manifestation, every form of existence. It is at once All and Nothing, at once Absolute Consciousness and Unconsciousness.

B.W. Betts, Geometric Psychology or the Science of Representation

Or, as Fichte envisioned it, the line symbolizes the progression of consciousness—linear and sequential—while the circle represents its completeness and self-enclosure, encompassing all its dimensions. Thus, both the noumenal everything and the phenomenal something are expressions of the same essence, differing only in their state of manifestation and representation.

Together, they define the Noumenal Monad as a meta-structure that bridges these states of being. It embodies the continuum between the actual and the potential, compacting the infinite diversity of noumenal states into a singular conceptual dimension. This process is geometrically encoded, offering a scaffold for understanding how existence unfolds from an infinite noumenal source into the finite, perceptual realm, while remaining irreducible to either.

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[ma-pi-ma]

L'amore è il mezzo attraverso il quale l'uomo può elevarsi al sommo bene.

Baruch Spinoza, Breve trattato su Dio, l’uomo e il suo bene

[quotessentially]

From Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics

[philosophybits]

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics