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" "...I love Spinoza, because he, more than any other philosopher, led me to the complete conviction that certain things cannot be explained, that because of this one need not close one's eyes to them, but rather take them as one finds them.
Benedictus de Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a social and metaphysical philosopher known for the elaborate development of his monist philosophy, which has become known as Spinozism. Controversy regarding his ideas led to his excommunication from the Jewish community of his native Amsterdam. He was named Baruch ("blessed" in Hebrew) Spinoza by his synagogue elders and known as Bento de Spinoza or Bento d'Espiñoza, but afterwards used the name Benedictus ("blessed" in Latin) de Spinoza.
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تَعوَّد اليهود أن يَنسِبوا إلى الله ما كان يتعدَّى فهْمَهم ويجهلون أسبابه الطبيعية في ذلك العصر، فالعاصفة «غضب الله»، والرعد والصاعقة سهام الله. ويعتقد أنَّ الله يحبِس الرياح في كهوفٍ يُسمُّونها غرفة كنز الله، ويختلفون في هذا الصَّدَد عن الوثنِيِّين؛ لأنهم يجعلون الله وليس أيول مُسيِّر الرياح، وللسبب نفسه سُمِّيت المُعجزات أفعال الله أي أفعالًا تُثير الدهشة، ذلك أنَّ كلَّ الأشياء الطبيعية أفعال الله، وهي لا تحدُث أو تُؤثِّر إلَّا بقدرة الله وحدَها. وهذا ما أراد كاتب المزامير أن يُعبِّر عنه عندما سَمَّى مُعجِزات مصر قُدرات الله؛ لأنَّ هذه المُعجِزات فَتَحت للعبرانيين، وهُم على شفا خطرٍ داهم، طريقًا للخلاص لم يَكونوا يأمُلون فيه، فأثارت إعجابهم الشديد. فإذا قِيل عن أعمال الطبيعة الخارقة للعادة إنها أعمال الله وإذا قِيل عن الأشجار الطويلة التي تزيد في طولها عن المُعتاد أنها أشجار الله، فليس هناك ما يدعو للدهشة عندما يُسمَّى الرجال الطُّوال الأقوياء في سِفر التكوين أبناء الله، حتى ولو كانوا قُطَّاع طُرُق وفَسَقة كفارًا.
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What is remarkable is how popular this heretic remains nearly three and a half centuries after his death, and not just among scholars. Spinoza's contemporaries, René Descartes and Gottfried Leibniz, made enormously important and influential contributions to the rise of modern philosophy and science, but you won’t find many committed Cartesians or Leibnizians around today. The Spinozists, however, walk among us. They are non-academic devotees who form Spinoza societies and study groups, who gather to read him in public libraries and in synagogues and Jewish community centres. Hundreds of people, of various political and religious persuasions, will turn out for a day of lectures on Spinoza, whether or not they have ever read him. There have been novels, poems, sculptures, paintings, even plays and operas devoted to Spinoza.