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Il était universaliste. Il espérait une disparition des religions traditionnelles au fur et à mesure que les hommes se voueraient plus nombreux à une exhaustive compréhension du cosmos. Nous avons abordé ce sujet il y a quelques années. Spinoza est le rationaliste par excellence. Il voit dans le monde un courant ininterrompu de causalités.
Irvin Yalom • Le Problème Spinoza (Littérature) (French Edition)
Terence McKenna on translating the Hermetic corpus over Plato:
... See moreNear the start of the Renaissance, Jemistus Pletho brought books to the Florentine council for translation. Medici said, “Plato can wait, I’m getting old, do the Hermetic Corpus first, it’s much more important, we’ll do Plato later.” A few years later, 1493, Cosmo Medici died and never s
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In the end, though, the stringency of Jewish law, above all the practice of circumcision, was a barrier against its wider adoption, and it was precisely these elements that Paul removed.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
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Michael Dean • 3 cards
for Jewish ethics, the path to universal love is through partiality rather than around it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
balancing intuition and reason, as well as egalitarianism and elitism, can be achieved only in the absence of a legislative body with power of enforcement.