Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Wisdom and Ecologism

As has been previously discussed, insofar as Spinoza's Wisdom includes the Intuition of one as a Mode of a dynamic immanent deity, it surpasses that of King Solomon, and Biblical Wisdom, in general, according to which the deity is transcendent.  But this new Wisdom is more than merely post-Theological, in the traditional sense of that term.  God in Spinoza's doctrine is also Nature, so Wisdom is, equivalently, that one is also an integral part of Nature, not a visitor to it, as is entailed in traditional Super-Naturalist Theology.  In other words, Spinoza's new Wisdom is incipient Ecologism, the fuller development of which is centuries away.  Ecologism is another implication of the Copernican destruction of Heaven-Earth dualism, and Spinoza's nascent awareness of it is another indication that he is the most radical of the early waves of post-Copernican Lovers of Wisdom.

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