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Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die Steven Nadler Socrates says in Plato’s Gorgias that there’s nothing more serious than “the question [of] how we ought to live.” We may aspire to live a good and happy life but what does such a life consist in? Good in what way? And happy how? We may aspire to live a good and happy life, but does Spinoza’s love of God remain a viable path to it? For a pious Jew or Christian, perhaps, the answer seems simple: a life in line with God’s will as expressed in the Bible. But what about the rest of us who have turned our backs on revelation? One of the first to do so was the Dutch Portuguese Jewish philosopher Benedict de Spinoza in the seventeenth century. The prophets had no wisdom, he claimed, and the Bible’s picture of God was utterly wrong: there is no creator God who performs miracles and reveals his will to Moses, let alone records it on tablets. (It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Sp ....
Last modified on Tue 15 Dec 2020 11.49 EST In Caste, Wilkerson explains why racism thrives and not just thrives, but is actively institutionalised and why white privilege must be recognised ⦠reading Caste helped me see the inequities within MY own society, how many patriarchal cultures and religious blackmail are a serious detriment to the progress of African societies and how, if we do not change the system, we will continue to be disenfranchised and held back in chains forged by our own hands. Umaymah Abdullahi, Nigeria Shuggie Bain takes the crown for me this year. I think about Shuggie and Agnes almost daily, and the cycle of poverty, addiction and abuse. I quit drinking in April during the initial lockdown and read it in September and it really struck a chord. Itâs incredibly well written and devastating but beautiful at the same time. ....
Readers on their favourite books of 2020: I’ve given it to everyone I know Guardian readers In Caste, Wilkerson explains why racism thrives and not just thrives, but is actively institutionalised and why white privilege must be recognised … reading Caste helped me see the inequities within MY own society, how many patriarchal cultures and religious blackmail are a serious detriment to the progress of African societies and how, if we do not change the system, we will continue to be disenfranchised and held back in chains forged by our own hands. Umaymah Abdullahi, Nigeria Shuggie Bain takes the crown for me this year. I think about Shuggie and Agnes almost daily, and the cycle of poverty, addiction and abuse. I quit drinking in April during the initial lockdown and read it in September and it really struck a chord. It’s incredibly well written and devastating but beautiful at the same time. ....