Spinoza and Bitcoin
Description
When Spinoza Met Satoshi
Discover how 17th-century philosopher Baruch de Spinoza's radical ideas about freedom, reason, and power prefigure Bitcoin's decentralized revolution. This course reveals the striking parallels: both reject blind faith and central authority, both use mathematical rigor to liberate. Spinoza freed minds from religious dogma, Bitcoin frees money from state control.
Learn practical tools from Spinoza's ethics to understand bitcoin's philosophical foundations and increase your agency. Ready to explore two of history's greatest instruments of human emancipation?
Learning path
Objectives
- Understanding Spinoza's practical philosophy and his quest for freedom.
- Exploring the Spinozist concepts of determinism and human illusions.
- Analyzing the parallels between Spinoza's revolution of ideas and Bitcoin's technological revolution.
- Applying affect theory to recognize and resist manipulation in political systems
Curriculum
+-Major works, Ethics and politics
+-The Spinozist revolution, the three illusions
+-From affect theory to Bitcoin
This course is taught by Pierre Ginet
Pierre Ginet is a French author and philosopher passionate about the intersection between Enlightenment philosophy and Bitcoin technology. Author of the book "Bitcoin, l'évangile de la liberté : Spinoza, les Lumières et la philosophie des Cypherpunks", he explores the profound links between Spinoza's thought, the ideals of the Enlightenment and the technological revolution embodied by Bitcoin. His unique approach is to demonstrate that the political philosophy of the Cypherpunks, although influenced by the Austrian school of economics, has its true roots in Enlightenment philosophy. His work offers a philosophical and humanist perspective on Bitcoin, going beyond the purely technical or financial aspects to explore the profound implications of this technology on human freedom.
