Reading & the Good Life
Join the conversation! Every Friday at Noon EST (Register here), Perennial Meditations readers are welcome to gather for Reading & the Good Life (a space for connection, contemplation, and conversations on the art of living). This Friday, we begin an exploration we’re calling How to Live — Like Spinoza through selected passages of Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction.
Check out the bookshelf below for upcoming (and previous) reading!
Spinoza on Free Will and Living Well
In his book Think Least of Death, Steven Nadler (a previous podcast guest) explains that a kind of freedom is available to human beings, and it is in our best interest to strive to attain it; this is what Spinoza’s Ethics is all about. But human freedom does not, and cannot, consist in the classic capacity to have chosen or willed or acted otherwise than as one did.
