A view of the truth: Spinoza's faith in reason - Print Version - International Herald Tribune:
"The exact reasons for the excommunication of the 23-year-old Spinoza remain murky, but the reasons he came to be vilified throughout all of Europe are not. Spinoza argued that no group or religion could rightly claim infallible knowledge of the creator's partiality to its beliefs and ways. After the excommunication, he spent the rest of his life - he died in 1677 at the age of 44 - studying the varieties of religious intolerance. The conclusions he drew are still of dismaying relevance."
Apparently I should've payed more attention to Spinoza back when I was in school...
Fanatic agnosticism is the answer!
Monday, August 14, 2006
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