Fwd: Zoom Link UK Spinoza Circle- Karolina Hübner

[Doug Mounce]

Dear All - This UK Spinoza Circle is a robust and interesting group.  I've attended several presentations and I like the speakers and the group dynamic.  They're currently discussing the role of affirmation in regard to ideas, existence, and "actual" or "objective" reality.  This is a good model for what I believe a "Lonergan Circle" could be.  If you are interested then I think you can write Antonio Borge and ask to be added. 

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From: Antonio Borge (staff) <Antoni...@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Subject: Zoom Link UK Spinoza Circle- Karolina Hübner
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Dear friends of the UKSC,

I hope this email finds you well. I’m writing to share the link for our upcoming talk this Friday.

The UKSC Presents- Karolina Hübner

Date: Mar 13, 2026 04:00 PM London

Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83717138396?pwd=Hbcu5oqSTa9ewQShg2CRZayN5S7pGa.1

Meeting ID: 837 1713 8396

Passcode: 398233

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Have a lovely day!

All best,

Tony

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Dr. Antonio S. Borge

Assistant Professor in Philosophy

University of Nottingham

Humanities Building, C28

www.antonioborge.co.uk

 

Treasurer of the BSHP  ||  Co-Chair of the UK Spinoza Circle

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[Hugh Williams]

Doug et al,

just a side note on Spinoza ...

and from the perspective of the history of philosophy

and the so-called 'canon' (western) ...

when you take this history seriously

and come to recognize that the importance of Hegel

for us as 'moderns' is analogous to that of Aristotle for the medievals

(think of St. Thomas Aquinas and Islamic thinkers, who Ernst Bloch was fascinated with

and who in turn created this category that he called the 'Aristotelian left' ...) 

then it is interesting and important that some have said 

that in order to really get a grip on Hegel's project and its implications

one has to have some serious appreciation for what Spinoza was up to 

and perhaps actually accomplished for philosophical thought ....

(In my ongoing Christian-Marxist inquiries, I keeping returning to Rahner's extraordinary efforts to overcome

a certain debilitating dualisms in Catholic-Christian thinking in his "Spirit in the World". Spinoza is not at all irrelevant

to all of this ...) 

Hugh

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[Doug Mounce]

Hi Hugh,

In the dialogue you are promoting there might be some cross-over interest from the Christian Effective Altruists.  I know the general EA community naturally considers the benefits of socialism, but Marx typically is dismissed in Christian conversations on the belief in God.

PS - although I am not investigating your line of inquiry I always notice references to money where I am reading.  In Giuseppe Mazzotta's lecture on Dante's Canto XXIV Paradiso, for example, the metaphor of money is used as a metaphor for faith and substance.  The Latin root moneo is where we get "admonishment" in the sense that faith is not a counterfeit but has an authentic purity, as well as being precious like a jewel.  

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