Once upon a time I took a course dedicated to reading the Ethics. I was, and still am, enamored with Spinoza because he was the perfect intersection of Eastern and Western philosophy, of analytical and continental - someone who understood that there was indeed something divine, yet that it could be identified and studied, someone who strove to give logical arguments to the mystical.

I don't think he was the first to say any of the things he's said, but he was the first to give it life as something that could indeed be rationally understood and almost mathematical in nature.

Thank you for bringing back those memories, and giving such him the passion and attention he deserves.