Episode 17 in which Val, Ol and guest Jasper Lear all melt into one whilst interpreting Part I of Spinoza's Ethics

Episode 17 in which Val, Ol and guest Jasper Lear all melt into one whilst interpreting Part I of Spinoza's Ethics

We explore Spinoza's absolute rationalism, his love of causal explanation, his arguments against multiple substances and how - going against our theological prejudices - he conceptualises an immanent God.

Episode 16 in which Spinoza throws Luna into the indivisible and indistinguishable infinite

Luna ventures out into absolute substance, learning to equate a depersonalised God with Nature, Nature as the necessary unfolding of an intricate causal nexus. Val tries out the bad pantheistic hippy German idealistic reading of Spinoza but Luna rescues him because she is not a hippy but a punk.

Episode 15 in which Luna 'deliminates' Spinoza's project to liberate us from all prejudice

Ol and Val find a back door into Book I of Spinoza's Ethics, making everything a lot easier with some context: the Appendix to Book I where Spinoza critiques our theological prejudices which lead us to imagine God as some kind of super human  being.

Episode 14 in which LUNA meets Spinoza, free-thinking lens-grinder and working class hero

Ol and Val try to figure out why Luna chose to travel just up the road from The Hague to Amsterdam to meet Spinoza and read his book The Ethics.

Episode 13 in which Ol, Val and Eloise get embroiled in a royal situationship between Descartes and Elizabeth of Bohemia

Elizabeth of Bohemia, member of a world-historical family, diplomat, philosopher, convent-founder, friend of religious dissidents, refuser of a compromised marriage, finds a massive problem in Descartes Meditations and thereby founds the modern philosophy of mind and its troubles.  Episode 13 features a special guest, Eloise Mignon, who works in and between theatre and philosophy.