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Spinoza's Heresy - Immortality and the Jewish Mind (Paperback)
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Spinoza's Heresy - Immortality and the Jewish Mind (Paperback)
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At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery: why was Baruch
Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish
community at the age of twenty-four? In this philosophical sequel
to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the
seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's
main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this
only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma
regarding immortality: there is nothing that a Jew is required to
believe about the soul and the afterlife. It was, however, for
various religious, historical and political reasons, simply the
wrong issue to pick on in Amsterdam in the 1650s. After considering
the nature of the ban, or cherem, as a disciplinary tool in the
Sephardic community, and a number of possible explanations for
Spinoza's ban, Nadler turns to the variety of traditions in Jewish
religious thought on the postmortem fate of a person's soul. This
is followed by an examination of Spinoza's own views on the
eternity of the mind and the role that that the denial of personal
immortality plays in his overall philosophical project. Nadler
argues that Spinoza's beliefs were not only an outgrowth of his own
metaphysical principles, but also a culmination of an
intellectualist trend in Jewish rationalism.
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