Opinion

Spinoza's God

Albert Einstein once spoke of his belief in Spinoza's God. This God reveals Himself in the orderly harmony of existence. It is not a God concerned with human actions. Baruch Spinoza, of Portuguese ...
Notions of God continues to keep triggering human mind, intellect, and heart. Over centuries, people across faiths, belief systems, and religions have been grappling with these questions: who is God, ...
For our first event in 2006, independent scholar Matthew Stewart discussed his new book, The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World. Stewart’s book ...
When many scientists, including Albert Einstein, say that they believe in Spinoza’s God, they are referring to a conception of God that is very different from the traditional theistic view found in ...
The beguiling Dutch philosopher’s life and work is prone to misunderstandings and misreadings. A recent biography goes so far as to recruit him into the culture war. A portrait of Benedict (Baruch) ...
“Spinoza: Six Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher,” a silver screen biography of the life and legacy of one of philosophy’s founding fathers, Baruch “Benedict” Spinoza, makes high drama ...
Dr. Bernard Drachman, speaking at the Jewish Center on Saturday morning, scored those specific Jewish organizations who have arranged to celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of Baruch Spinoza which ...
According to Nietzsche, "Every great philosophy is... a personal confession of its creator and a kind of involuntary and unperceived memoir.". Stewart affirms this maxim in his colorful ...