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We give a new impetus to the design of this blog the second editorial models already tested elsewhere. Rather than describe them we consider preferable to proceed directly to implementation. Spinoza is a great thinker and interesting today. Why it will come gradually discovering. Here it is enough to give a minimum of spatial and temporal coordinates. Born in Amsterdam November 24, 1632 and died February 21, 1677. The first figure we meet is studying the thought Uriel da Costa, who denied the immortality of the soul and was excommunicated from the synagogue with infamy.
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Contents: 1. The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza
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1. The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza
. - The excommunication was in 1656 by the Jewish community in Amsterdam. The charges were:
a) denial of the immortality of the soul;
b) denial of divine providence;
c) denial of the validity of the Torah. Apparently it had been viewed as particularly serious the first challenge, namely the denial of the immortality of the soul. In theological debate within the Jewish community at that time prevailed over the views of Saul Levi Mortera as opposed to those of Isaac Aboab, but the two rivals agreed that the soul is immortal and it was in the individual soul. The doctrine of the immortality of the soul had become important within Judaism for reasons related to Portuguese influences. Before Spinoza was Uriel da Costa to tap this key that will be costly to both. In fact, Spinoza does not admit the immortality of the soul, instead talking about mnetre
eternity of the mind. But the mind is part of the body and then disappears with it. It is something that is not easy to understand here. If you deny the immortality of the soul does not mean that Spinoza makes a profession of atheism. The idea of \u200b\u200bGod is widely present in his philosophy: "The human mind is a part of the infinite intellect of God" (
Ethics, II, 11, corollary). To add a practical aspect: the denial of the immortality of the interests affected clerics as being unable to administer the rewards in the afterlife the clergy was to be stripped of his earthly power.
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2. Biographical
. - Amsterdan is born November 24, 1632 and died February 21, 1677 at The Hague. It is considered "one of the greatest exponents of the rationalism of the seventeenth century, the forerunner of the Enlightenment and of modern textual criticism of the Scriptures." Parents became Marranos, that is, they were forced to convert to Christianity. Baruch or Benedict's mother, Deborah Hanna, was the second wife of Michael Spinoza. He died November 5, 1638, when Baruch was six years old. His family was forced to subscribe to Portugal as a result of religious intolerance and to move to Holland, where Baruch was born and initially educated in the Sephardic community of Amsterdam. In 1649, at age 17, left school to help his father Michael, but he began to study Latin with Franciscus van den Enden since 1654. After the excommunication took place in 1656, had to leave Amsterdam in a small village near Leiden. He lived his work as a slow turner. He dismissed a professor of philosophy at Heidelberg.
3. Aphorisms of Baruch Spinoza
. - Clicking the link leads to a wide range of extracts from the works of Spinoza. Do we get a custom synthesis that should serve as guidance in the first reading of texts, accompanied by strictly philological apparatus. You have to be very careful not to be influenced by prejudice certain passions, much less hate. Well is the joy and what satisfies a desire. The "fear" in Spinoza seems to have a concept and an entirely different function than in Hobbes. For the latter is of insecurity, for Spinoza source of superstition. On the political Spinozzi seems to judge negatively the rebels who are not able to act on the causes that produce tyranny.
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