This video delves into Spinoza's ethical philosophy, emphasizing that it's not about personal development or moralizing. Instead, Spinoza offers a rational understanding of the natural laws governing our existence. Good and evil are relative to our power to act: what increases it is good, and what diminishes it is bad. Spinoza's ethics aims to increase our power through knowledge and reason, not subjective happiness. Joy, in Spinoza's view, is an increase in our being resulting from understanding the necessity of things, not a fleeting emotion.
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