SPINOZA - Stefaan Van Brabandt & Han Kerckhoffs

Freedom, reasonableness and happiness, that is what it is all about with Spinoza. In his time he was banished because of his radical ideas about faith, freedom and democracy, for centuries his books were even banned in Europe. And yet he is one of the most influential thinkers in history. Spinoza as a human of flesh and blood, tossed back and forth between loneliness, freedom, struggle and resistance. He shows that there can be no gap between conviction and one's own life, between thinking and practical wisdom, between ideals and political realism. What does his philosophy still mean for us today? How does Spinoza God see? What does he think about free will? And above all: how can we realize a joyful life according to him?