Spinoza, Life and Legacy Quotes

“the “second” kind. Knowledge of the “third kind” in Spinoza’s sense, his scientia intuitiva, combines the insights reached after building a mass of correct inferences drawn from data to reveal the underlying structures of reality. Even if grasped only by very few, held Spinoza, rejecting a knowing God who rewards and punishes, and the immortality of the soul, is therefore not speculation or “dogma” but fundamental truth.69”
― Jonathan I. Israel, Spinoza, Life and Legacy