In 1656 this freethinking Dutch philosopher was excommunicated by the Jewish community
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Is ban on bad boy Jewish philosopher Spinoza near end? - JTA  Dec 10, 2015 ... Spinoza, a Dutch-born Jewish philosopher who laid the intellectual foundations ... secular Jew, was banished by Amsterdam's Portuguese Jews in 1656 for heresy. ... by the head of the Dutch Portuguese Jewish community and leading ... to lift the ancient order of excommunication against the philosopher...
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Baruch Spinoza - Wikipedia  Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the ... Spinoza was raised in the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. ... excommunication) against him, effectively excluding him from Jewish society at .... In March 1656, Spinoza filed suit with the Amsterdam municipal authorities to...
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Free Flashcards about PHILOSOPHY - StudyStack  IN 1656 THIS FREETHINKING DUTCH PHILOSOPHER WAS EXCOMMUNICATED FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY... SPINOZA. "THE BRAIN IS AN ORGAN...
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Richard Popkin reviews 'The God of Spinoza' by Richard Mason and ...  Oct 15, 1998 ... The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study by Richard Mason ... the Jewish community of Amsterdam in Spinoza's day, about events connected ... In both books, the excommunication of 1656 is the turning point, when ... It was not a clear-cut case of rigid Orthodox Jews throwing out a free-thinking rebel.
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Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated | Humanities  His communal tax payments and contributions to the community's charitable funds .... from the Amsterdam Jewish community's leadership in 1656, a herem like no ... in 1656, he went to the Dutch authorities to have himself declared an orphan ... Among the boldest elements of Spinoza's philosophy is his conception of God.
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Baruch Spinoza - philosophers.co.uk  A brief biography of philosopher Baruch Spinoza, one of the co-founders of modern ... Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) was a Jewish-Dutch philosopher whose work ... up in the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam that grew significantly after ... After his father's death one year later (1654), Spinoza took over family...
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GERMANY: Jewish Joke - TIME  The Jews of Germany last week had one of their first good laughs at the expense ... philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), grandfather of Composer Felix...
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Jews to be expelled from Spain - Mar 31, 1492 - HISTORY.com  In Spain, a royal edict is issued by the nation's Catholic rulers declaring that all Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity will be expelled from the country. ... Most Spanish Jews chose exile rather than the renunciation of their religion and...
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Thomas  Kempis - Wikipedia  Thomas  Kempis, C.R.S.A. was a Dutch canon regular of the late medieval period and the author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the most popular and best known Christian books on devotion. His name means Thomas "of Kempen", his hometown, and in German he is ... "Without the Way, there is no going,: Without the Truth, there is no knowing,...
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Thomas More (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  Mar 19, 2014 ... Thomas More (14781535) was an English lawyer, humanist, statesman, ... His friendship with the Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus lasted over .... the new king and carrying in his head the initial idea for The Praise of Folly. ... selfless scholarship, dedicated to the love of God and the profit of his church.
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Moses Maimonides | Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician ...  May 11, 2016 ... March 30, 1135 ... His contributions in religion, philosophy, and medicine have ... Maimonides was born into a distinguished family in Crdoba ... in Crdoba, the Maimon family finally left the city about 1159 to settle in Fez, Morocco. ... In 1165 Rabbi Judah ibn Shoshan, with whom Moses had studied, was...
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1000+ images about Rembrandt on Pinterest | Rembrandt portrait ...  Rembrandt van Rijn - Self-portrait of the artist with his young wife Saskia. Save ... I love the intimacy Rembrant: The Jewish Bride (detail), I love how he has painted the ..... Sacrifice of Isaac, Rembrandt, 1635 REMBRANT VAN RIJN , c. ... a command which He did not mean to have obeyed, to make an offering of Isaac to him.
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Sabbatai Zevi - Wikipedia  Sabbatai Zevi (August 1, 1626  c. September 17, 1676) was a Sephardic Rabbi and kabbalist ... During the first half of the 17th century, millenarian ideas of the approach of the ... He attracted crowds of listeners. ... After some hesitation, he publicly declared himself to be the expected Messiah during the Jewish New Year in...
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Rene Descartes | French mathematician and philosopher ...  Apr 28, 2015 ... Because he was one of the first to abandon scholastic ... by 1628 but not published until 1701), consists of four rules: (1) accept ... Despite these affinities, Descartes rejected the Rosicrucians' ... had founded the Oratorian teaching congregation in 1611 as a rival to the ... The World and Discourse on Method.
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Martin Luther diet_of_worm - 'Unless I am convinced by testimonies ...  Here I stand;I cannot do otherwise.So help me ... He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money.
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Jan Hus - Wikipedia  Jan Hus often referred to in English as John Hus or John Huss, was a Czech priest, philosopher, early Christian reformer and ... He was burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church, including those ... After Hus was executed in 1415, the followers of his religious teachings (known as Hussites)...
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Maimonides (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  Jan 24, 2006 ... Moses ben Maimon [known to English speaking audiences as Maimonides and Hebrew speaking as Rambam] (11381204) is the greatest Jewish philosopher of the ... Maimonides was born to a distinguished family in Cordova, Spain in ... Not only does this work systematize all the commandments of the...
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Socrates - Wikiquote  470 BC  399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the ... Socrates left no writings of his own, thus our awareness of his teachings comes ... literally: 'For know well', he said, 'o dearest Kriton, that to not speak well is not only sinful ..... The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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jeopardy/11 at master  towski/jeopardy  GitHub  ... order to remain independent, this 17th C. Dutch philosopher declined a professorship &amp; a pension","category":"ADD A \"PIN\"CH","value":"$600"...
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spinoza - New Advent  Belonged to a family of Jewish merchants of moderate means, and was originally called Baruch. ... Baruch, a name that he later translated into its Latin equivalent Benedict. ... Baruch attracted attention in the school for Portuguese Jews at Amsterdam ... In 1656 he was formally expelled from the Jewish community and soon...
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jeopardy/295_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  GREAT THINKERS | This 17th C. Dutch Jew was excommunicated from his synagogue for his independent thinking | (Baruch) Spinoza. right: Wrong: Triple...