Alfred rosenberg et spinoza biography
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Irvin D. Yalom, The filosof Problem. New York: Basic, pages.
In rummaging through a bookcase, inom came upon this book. I put it aside with the intention of reading it, but never got around to it until recently. I don’t remember its getting much attention when it was published in It deserves more. Dr. Yalom has written a historical konto – indeed two connected accounts – of memorable events and personalities.
Baruch (Bento) Spinoza was born into the Dutch Sephardic Jewish community. Orthodox in religious practice, it was very practical – and successful – when it came to commerce. Its primary origin lay in the Spanish Inquisition, established in by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile at the instigation of Tomás de Torquemada, a Castilian Dominican friar. An estimated , people in Portugal and Spain were prosecuted for various offences during the Inquisition’s three-century existence, of whom up to 5, were executed. Royal decrees issued in and ordered Jews an
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The Spinoza Problem | Jewish Book Council
Nazi propagandist and self-proclaimed philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, a high-ranking party official driven by an obsessive need for Hitler’s approval, had a “Spinoza Problem.” How could a German cultural giant like Goethe pay homage to the mind and writings of a Jew? Dr. Yolam establishes this intellectual and emotional quagmire as a key to Rosenberg’s essential nature. A virulent anti-Semite who promoted the concept of the essential depravity of “Jewish blood,” Rosenberg’s confidence in Aryan supremacy was threatened by Spinoza’s stature. One timeline of Yalom’s daring novel is a fictional biography of Rosenberg up through the fall of the Third Reich.
The other timeline is a fictional biography of Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth century Dutch apostate Jew whose writings prefigured much in modern and contemporary philosophy. Spinoza’s a
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Baruch Spinoza
17th century philosopher (–)
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Baruch (de) Spinoza[b] (24 November 21 February ), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period. Influenced by Stoicism, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes,[16]Ibn Tufayl, and heterodox Christians, Spinoza was a leading philosopher of the Dutch Golden Age.
Spinoza was born in Amsterdam to a Marrano family that fled Portugal for the more tolerant Dutch Republic. He received a traditional Jewish education, learning Hebrew and studying sacred texts within the Portuguese Jewish community, where his father was a