"Betraying Spinoza"... but long ago. and I mean LONG ago. I think the year it was published? I was troubled by it, as I am with any 'interpretation' that involves deciphering of motive. Not that it wasn't interesting, or her viewpoint shouldn't be considered... but it is a viewpoint, an opinion.

I would have been more receptive had I read Spinoza himself beforehand... which I did not. Not that it would have done any good... philosophy flies over my head like a neutrino.

Since time out of mind I have been reading, trying to get through, "Summa theologiae". But it's painstaking... one sentence and I'm, "huh? What? Who? where? How?".