Does Spinoza’s ethics have anything to offer to modern moral philosophy?

Workshop # 7, Series 11, Spinoza's Ethics
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 11.30 am UK, 6.30 am NY.

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THIS WEEK: Spinoza’s ethics are still widely discussed in the modern world. But is his account too dependent on classical ideas like; a realist conception of absolute knowledge ‘sub specie aeternitatis’, and a pantheistic animism in the world, for his views to be viable? Yet many of his methods remain popular today, such as a widespread rationalism and cognitivist philosophy, and a philosophical conception of God as an explanative principle, as well as replacing free will with a determinism that calls for education rather than moral condemnation. Are these developments sufficient to redeem Spinoza’s thought, or are they further reasons why it is outdated? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 4, Scn. i.