https://tidsskrift.dk/res_cogitans/issue/feed 2023-01-22T21:19:03+01:00 Søren Harnow Klausen harnow@sdu.dk Open Journal Systems <p>Res Cogitans er et elektronisk/online filosofisk tidsskrift som har hjemme på Syddansk Universitet, Odense. Skriftets sigte er at skabe et forum for filosofisk diskussion på et højt niveau, uden at kræve nogen specifik metode eller filosofisk orientering. Artikler der beskæftiger sig med emner der grænser op til filosofi, såsom psykologi, lingvistik, litteraturteori, kunstig intelligens, videnskabshistorie, sociologi, religion, teologi, kulturstudier etc. kan også accepteres hvis redaktionen vurderer at de har tilstrækkelig filosofisk betydning.</p> https://tidsskrift.dk/res_cogitans/article/view/135711 2023-01-22T20:54:38+01:00 Norman K. Swazo norman.swazo@northsouth.edu

<p>ABSTRACT: Whether rabbinic authorities should remove the excommunication (<em>cherem</em>) of philosopher Benedict de Spinoza has been a matter of debate in recent years. Spinoza’s philosophical thought, however, demonstrates that this debate would not matter to him.&nbsp; His pantheism, developed in the <em>Theological-Philosophical Treatise</em> and the <em>Ethics</em>, will ever be a radical contestation of monotheism.&nbsp; Juxtaposing his philosophical views to the fictional narrative that existential psychologist Irvin D. Yalom offers, in his novel <em>The Spinoza Problem</em>, provides plausible psychological insight into Spinoza’s post-<em>cherem</em> identity in pursuit of authentic selfhood (‘authentic’ in Heidegger’s sense of ‘authenticity,’ <em>Eigentlichkeit</em>). Thereby, we can appreciate the enduring import of Spinoza’s radical enlightenment, the authentic choice of the identity he adopted, and his indefatigable commitment to the piety of reason, i.e., intellectual love of God (<em>amor Dei intellectus</em>).</p>

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