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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
& Misery would be
Coleridge lamented that Spinoza’s ‘error consisted not so much in what he affirms, as in what he has omitted to affirm or rashly denied . . . that he saw God in the ground only and exclusively, in his Might alone and his essential Wisdom, and not likewise in his moral, intellectual, existential and personal Godhead’. In short, Spinoza’s Ethics lacked the theoretical basis for an ethics. The Spinozist God, as the eternal actualisation of the universe, need not impinge upon the temporal actualisation of events at a human level. Such a condition was tantamount to Hell for Coleridge, a world in which all hope had been abandoned.
If like Spinoza, I had contemplated God as the infinite Substance (Substantia Unica) as the incomprehensible mindless, lifeless, formless Substans of all Mind, Life and Form—there would be for me neither Good nor Evil – Yet Pain, & Misery would be—& would be hopeless.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Imagination divine
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Edward Thomas
Extracts from a long out-of-print monograph that I wrote about Edward Thomas twenty years ago entitled 'A Bleak but Honest Resolution'. But it's still on Kindle.
John Dunn.
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Just a thought:
After the Renaissance and the Treaty of Westphalia, the oligarchical alliance was forced to reinvent itself. But whilst new forms were established, the content would remain the same, namely the mass trafficking of people and money, slavery and borderless globalised chaos. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arch 6
Further additions to the project, starting with Herman Moll's alternative to the Buckingham and Bedford route.
John Dunn
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