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“If beauty confuses with the truth ", as the poet Keats said, the Philosophy of Spinoza is one of the truest.”The banal philosophers begin philosophizing about the things, Descartes began thinking about the mind and Spinoza began with God", said Leibniz. He defined as anybody before, the Philosophy of the sefarady Jew from Amsterdam that for building his philosophical system starting from the idea of God as infinite substance was well known by the epithet that gave him Novalis, “The drunken man by God". Almost everybody misunderstood Spinoza at that time, being his books considered heretical for all the religious tribunals of XVII th century. In this book, Ponczek argues that, from the Renaissance, the man started to perceive the universe and himself in a radically different way and the Philosophy, understood not only as a knowledge activity, but also as a world vision, could not stay unconcerned about the political and scientific revolutions taking place. As philosopher, Spinoza’s role was being the first to think radically on a world radically different from his ancestors. As Jew, after his traumatic rupture with the Jewish Spanish-Portuguese community in Amsterdam, Spinoza created the practice that will strongly influence the thought of the future Jewish intelligentsia. This means the contestation of the establishment and the consequent revolution without turning point of the essential ideas concerning the mysteries of the physical universe and of the human nature. Mendelssohn, Marx, Freud, Einstein, Benjamin, Bergson, Husserl, Buber, Kafka, are just some of these transgressors of the conventionalism and inheritors of the culture of deep reflection that takes unavoidably to the rupture of secular dogmas and “apparent truths ". Spinoza was the forerunner and without abandoning the central idea of the Jewish monotheism, that is, the existence of an infinite, unique and eternal God, built his philosophical system, compatible with the Science, starting from an immanent God hidden in the laws of the nature. Spinoza opened us the possibility not only for a modern science as well as for a modern religion. Among the mentioned thinkers, Einstein was who best recognized the paternity of his spinozian ideas concerning the universe and of a possible cosmic Religion of the Science. He understood that to think on Spinoza implies in a reflection that all scientists should do on their selves.

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