132. Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1

We look at the tragedies of Spinoza's life.  The clique that forms around him.  The tragi comic end of his friend and mentor Van Den Enden.

Primarily we cover Spinoza's views, and here we introduce the idea that we live in a fully mechanistic, fully determined world, where there is no room for free will or God's providence.