The Spinoza Problem by Irvin D. Yalom

The Spinoza Problem Irvin D. Yalom ebook
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465029631
Format: pdf
Page: 336

A further area where Leibniz reacted to Spinoza was with Spinoza's claim that the mind is simply the idea of the body. Throughout the play we see how Spinoza causes problems between those he loves the most. There were two chief problems with this claim for Leibniz. It's part of the problem, surely, that Bloom has been haunted for more than half a century, he says, by Spinoza's admonition that “It is necessary that we learn to love God without ever expecting that he will love us in return.”. [24] http://www.amazon.com/The-Spinoza-Problem-A-Novel/dp/0465029639, http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelve_twelve/article/psychotherapy_and_philosophy_intersect_in_spinoza_problem_20120307. About a year ago I was headed to Juneau and my friend Paul with whom I was going to stay while there, asked if I could bring him the book The Spinoza Problem from Anchorage. Stones that Think, Imagine and Have Ideas? Perhaps the biggest problem with Spinoza is that he is surely, slowly being forgotten, neglected and undervalued for the philosopher he was and the contributions he made to just plain questioning and thinking. Jackson said of Alfred Rosenberg “that his wooly philosophy also added boredom to the long list of Nazi atrocities”. At the Nuremberg Trials, Justice Robert J. Irvin Yalom's The Spinoza Problem is an amazing novel that combines fact and fiction in a spell-binding manner. Of course, Spinoza might reply that none of this constitutes anything more than an idiosyncratic departure from the “core” anthropocentric and theological sources of belief in final causes.