Re: Re: Re: "Spinoza was a communist thinker long before Marx"

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doyle wrote: >The selected quotes from Pen-lers below the signature on this
reply (source from Jim Devine -Spinoza, and Yoshie Furuhashi - Hobbes) are
representative of the early period in philosophy of "rationalist" rejection
of emotions as appropriate to knowledge production.  I would like to sketch
my opposition to the Jim Devine quoted Spinoza remarks below through the
contemporary "theory of mind"  or "joint attention" (from research on
Autism). <

I was NOT endorsing Spinoza's remarks. Spinoza's put-down of everyday
people was far over the top but sometimes it _feels_ as if pen-l fits the
description. But it never actually does fit that description. In other
words, I was being ironic.

I'll answer the rest of Doyle's comments off-list, because they don't seem
appropriate to pen-l's purposes.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine