HOW JEWISH IS SPINOZA’S GOD?

Authors

  • Fernando Dias Andrade Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2016.120390

Keywords:

Jewishness. Atheism. Jewish Spinoza. Spinoza’s God. Definition of God. Spinoza and the Jewish tradition.

Abstract

If it is true that Spinoza belongs to the history of Jewish Philosophy, his concept of God also cannot cease to being “Jewish”. Our aim here is (after considering Spinoza’s condition as Jew, philosopher, “atheist”, Jewish philosopher and modern Jew) to call into question if Spinoza’s concept of God, as exposed in Ethics’ definitions, has something of Jewish, particularly when faced with conceptions yielded by some of the main philosophers from Jewish and Arabic traditions: Saadya, Avicenna, Ibn Gabirol, Halevi, Maimonides and Crescas. Our answer, at the end, is negative.

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Author Biography

  • Fernando Dias Andrade, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo
    Professor, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

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Published

2016-12-24

Issue

No. 35 (2016)

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How to Cite

Andrade, F. D. (2016). HOW JEWISH IS SPINOZA’S GOD?. Cadernos Espinosanos, 35, 63-133. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2016.120390