Spinoza on Covid Consensus

“A common basis for harmony is fear, but that sort of harmony is without trust, and it isn’t based on reason, because fear arises from weakness of mind and so has nothing to do with the exercise of reason. (Nor does pity, though it looks like morality.)” Spinoza, Ethics, Book IV, 16 app.

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