[2000 words] So... I've read a lot about it. And this is how I'd sum it up. Insofar as the world was created, God is that which created it.This takes, as its basic metaphor, the act of a person setting out to construct something specific, like a painting or a pot. Insofar as the world …
[7000 words] OK. We gotta start somewhere, and I suppose this is it. So in the early 1600s, this guy called Descartes comes along and thinks about things and figures that basically everything can be boiled down to two substances. A substance is what something basically can be boiled down to. So, take a block …
[2000 words] The Ethics is a book which was published in 1677. It was written by Baruch (or Benedict) Spinoza. His first name means "Blessed". His surname means "Thorny", or, if you will, "spiky", or even "prickly". In other words: he's one of the most beautiful things to ever happen on this planet, but he …
