Knox Peden

“For Kant, the value of the “rational faith” on offer in his philosophy was that it did not mistake itself for knowledge, a value that was especially clear when counterpoised to Spinoza’s demonstrative insistence on the role of determinant necessity throughout existence. Against Spinoza’s rationalist conviction, rational faith in God, the source of morality, was a matter of presupposition, not demonstration. With its claims about God arranged in the manner of a geometrical proof, Spinoza’s philosophy resulted in an enthusiasm or Schwärmerei of reason to rival if not exceed the fanaticism of religious zealots.5”
― Knox Peden, Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze