Shofar, March 22nd, 2002
For centuries Benedict Spinoza has been regarded as everything from an antisemite to anti-Biblical. These and similar charges are not supported by recent analyses. Spinoza was an intellectual figure who believed deeply in a Deity while opening up the Torah to the same kind of criticism that would be seen in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not a "liberal" in the modem political sense, he expressed a passionate faith in freedom of conscience. Not a modem epistemologist, he built his knowledge theory on intuitive reasoning which is similar to that of contemporary physicists. Spinoza is ...
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