Spinoza, Benedict

A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion;      505 words ...Spinoza, Benedict One of the most significant figures in the history of general philosophy (1632–77). Spinoza was born in Amsterdam to Mikael and Hanna Deborah, Mikael's second wife who died when Spinoza was a little boy of 6. The family were Marranos who had...

Etienne Balibar's marxist Spinoza

Philosophy Today;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......never become my own.1 The foreclosure of Spinoza seems to me to be significant. Here is...both the final cause and representation). Spinoza's substantialist rationalism is a radical...essay are to highlight the significance of Spinoza's thought as a counter-discourse in the...

Thursday Book: The philosopher's philosopher WITHIN REASON: A LIFE OF...

The Independent - London;  November 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ...BERTRAND RUSSELL wrote of Spinoza that he was "supreme" in ethics, if...which he could not be bribed to recant, Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community...declaring that God was everywhere? Was Spinoza a materialist or a mystic, a believer...

Deciphering Spinoza, the Great Original

International Herald Tribune;  June 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ......International Herald Tribune 06-17-2006 Betraying Spinoza The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity...begin with its greatest denier, Baruch Spinoza. His ''Ethics'' exiles contingency, singularity...his starting point. Could he have become Spinoza without Descartes? Did he beget himself...

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The Independent - London;  January 16, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77), a product of the Golden Age...of Copernicus, Galileo and Descartes, Spinoza was the first philosopher to suggest that...authority of the Bible. As a rationalist, Spinoza took it for granted that the basic nature...

Koistinen, Olli and John Biro, editors. Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes.(Book...

The Review of Metaphysics;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...KOISTINEN, Olli and John BIRO, editors. Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes. New York: Oxford...serve both as a valuable resource for Spinoza studies and as a potent stimulus to them...Throughout, exacting attention is devoted to Spinoza's writings, and considerable analytical...

Barukh Spinoza - Founder of the ACLU? Seeing in the Excommunicated

Forward;  May 23, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Forward 05-23-1997 Barukh Spinoza -- Founder of the ACLU? Seeing in the...Philosopher the Roots of Liberalism Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish...17th-century philosopher and heretic, Barukh Spinoza. For someone who denied the very existence...

Spinoza's faith in reason A view of the truth

International Herald Tribune;  July 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......excommunication of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza from the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam in which he had been raised. The Spinoza anniversary didn't get a lot of attention...worth remembering in large measure because Spinoza's life and thought have the power to illuminate...

philosophy Noel malcolm wonders how far spinoza and Leibniz, opposites in...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World BY MATTHEW...s contemporary, the Dutch- Jewish philosopher Spinoza. One reason for this may be that Spinoza's complete works take up just four volumes. He...

Spinoza, liberalism, science, and contemporary judaism.(Benedict Spinoza)

Shofar;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...For centuries Benedict Spinoza has been regarded as everything from...are not supported by recent analyses. Spinoza was an intellectual figure who believed...to that of contemporary physicists. Spinoza is a unique figure in Jewish intellectual...

THE GOD OF SPINOZA: A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY.(Review)

Theological Studies;  March 1, 1999 ;     631 words ...THE GOD OF SPINOZA: A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY. By Richard Mason...xiv + 272. $54.95. This is a study of Spinoza's principal philosophical positions seen...God. Mason filters his interpretation of Spinoza through a general tripartite division...

The Spinoza Conundrum

The New York Jewish Week;  June 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The Spinoza Conundrum Two fictionalized biographies attempt to fill in the holes of Spinoza's life. Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Cave Us Modernity. Rebecca Goldstein. Schocken Books, 304 pages, $19.95. Conversation with Spinoza: A Cobweb...

Jesus, Spinoza, and Jewish modernity.(Benedict Spinoza)

Midstream;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...It has been established that Spinoza's life was wholly blameless, as pure...divine cousin Jesus Christ. Like him, Spinoza suffered for his teaching; like him...1980s and 1990s, there is the current Spinoza revival. It runs the gamut from Antonio...

Ethics as First Philosophy: Levinas Reads Spinoza.(Critical Essay)

Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......between the philosophies of Levinas and Spinoza go all the way down and thus preclude meaningful comparison. If Spinoza, as has been alleged, is the Marrano...by Levinas's critical remarks about Spinoza's God and are further sharpened by Levinas...

Willi Goetschel: Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing and Heine.(Book...

The Germanic Review;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Willi Goetschel Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing and...this book, that subversive freethinker Spinoza, has emboldened Goetschel to ask tough...argument is that a deeper understanding of Spinoza's philosophy is necessary to grasp how...