Matthew McCall

“In Spinoza's world, you are not free to have chosen not to have read this sentence, for "the will cannot be called a free cause, but can only be necessary" (1p32). Moreover, the world's entire history was necessarily determined when the first particle of matter came into existence. In other words, the only metaphysically possible time-line is the actual time-line. According to this aptly named necessitarianism, it's metaphysically impossible for Dick not to have experienced "2-3-74." By necessity, "Things could have been produced by God in no other manner and in no other order than that which they have been produced" (1p33). For Spinoza, we're victims of circumstance in the truest sense.”
― Matthew McCall