In this opening lecture of a series on Baruch Spinoza, Noa Lahav Ayalon sets the stage for one of philosophy's most ambitious projects: Ethics. She begins with Spinoza's life as a seventeenth-century ...
In this lecture, Noa Lahav Ayalon unpacks Spinoza's concept of conatus, the fundamental striving at the heart of human existence, and follows its implications through his entire ethical framework. Beg...
Why do we feel so certain that we need free will? And what holds a body together from one moment to the next? In this lecture, Noa Lahav Ayalon works through Spinoza's radical alternative to Descartes...
In this lecture, Noa Lahav Ayalon makes the case that love is the single most important thread that runs through all of Spinoza's Ethics. Beginning with Spinoza's definitions of love and hate, she sho...