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ce qui importe le plus, c'est qu'au milieu de cet effroyable ouragan de haine il ait conservé intact son joyau spirituel, sa foi en l'humanité ; et c'est à cette petite lueur que Spinoza, Lessing et Voltaire ont pu allumer leur flambeau, comme le feront par la suite tous les futurs Européens. Érasme est le seul intellectuel de sa génération qui soi
... See moreAlzir Hella • Érasme: Grandeur et décadence d'une idée (French Edition)
Spinoza presents a clear version of what I call the religious aspiration to eternity.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
One should do the good because it is good, and choose truth because it is true,
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
La sagesse de Spinoza est donc très différente de celles qui considèrent le désir comme un manque (Platon) ou comme un affect indifférent (stoïciens) ou à diminuer (traditions ascétiques), à cause des égarements et de l’attachement qu’il procure. Le désir n’exprime pas un manque, mais une puissance, répond Spinoza à Platon. Il n’est pas dangereux e
... See moreFrédéric Lenoir • Le miracle Spinoza : Une philosophie pour éclairer notre vie (Documents) (French Edition)
Baruch Spinoza
Walter Isaacson • Einstein: His Life and Universe
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704) is the apostle of the Revolution of 1688, the most moderate and the most successful of all revolutions.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Spinoza. He alone saw that the human mind could never be reconciled with the human body unless intelligence was recognized as an attribute of nature in its entirety.
David Abram • Becoming Animal
Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Dutch philosopher, and his ideas were quite radical and continue to spark debate even today. Baruch (later Benedictus) Spinoza was born in Amsterdam in 1632 to a Portuguese Jewish family.
In regard to the state of nature, Locke was less original than Hobbes, who regarded it as one in which there was war of all against all, and life was nasty, brutish, and short. But Hobbes was reputed an atheist. The view of the state of nature and of natural law which Locke accepted from his predecessors cannot be freed from its theological basis;
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