Spinoza: the first philosopher of the rational Enlightenment? — The Slow Tachyon

For the radical thinkers of the Enlightenment, he was the first man to have lived and died as a true atheist. For others, including the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he provides perhaps the most profound conception of God to be found in Western philosophy. He was bold enough to defy the thinking of his […]Continue reading “Spinoza: the first philosopher of the rational Enlightenment? — The Slow Tachyon”

God According To Baruch Spinoza — Beneath The Layers

Today I would like to share with you a bit of Spinoza’s ideologies which have touched my spirit. For those of you who may not know about him, he was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese origin and was considered one of the greatest minds of his time. Many believed him to be an atheist (by […]Continue reading “God According To Baruch Spinoza — Beneath The Layers”

Spinoza and the Upanishads — Eternal India – सार्वकालिक भारत

Photo by Margerretta on Pexels.com The Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) is considered to be one the leading rationalist thinkers of the Dutch Golden Age. His philosophical works had a huge influence on western philosophy, on the early Enlightenment movement and on modern bible criticism. In his master of works ‘Ethics’, which was […]Continue reading “Spinoza and the Upanishads — Eternal India – सार्वकालिक भारत”

Baruch Spinoza: The God of Spinoza — Museum of Remembrance: Judaism, Israel, the Holocaust & Genocide studies

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) born Benedito de Espinosa was a Jewish-Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. By laying the groundwork for the Enlightenmentand modern biblical criticism,including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. Along with René Descartes, Spinoza was a leading philosophicalContinue reading “Baruch Spinoza: The God of Spinoza — Museum of Remembrance: Judaism, Israel, the Holocaust & Genocide studies”