Amanuel (@amanuelsahilu): "borges’ poem on spinoza occupies the same mental space for me—“tributes from poetry to philosophy”—as wallace stevens’ poem on santayana https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2021/07/12/to-an-old-philosopher/"

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borges’ poem on spinoza occupies the same mental space for me—“tributes from poetry to philosophy”—as wallace stevens’ poem on santayana

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Touching post about Spinoza here. I tried to read Spinoza when I was 13 after watching a very weird puppet show about him very late at night on TV — back when if you watched TV in the middle of the night in the UK you could watch all the Open University broadcasts on BBC 2 (an awkward lecturer talking you through a chemistry experiment o…

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To an old philosopher - The Catholic Thing

The “old philosopher” of the title is George Santayana, under whom Stevens studied briefly at Harvard, and who died in Rome at a hospital run by nuns. On the threshold

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