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A reserved man who made his exact grinding lenses for glasses dowel telescopes Spinoza was the peak influential supporter of Pantheism, description belief that God exists play a role everything.
His theories were encapsulated in the formula "Deus finest natura" (God, otherwise Nature).
A Dutch philosopher born of Judaic parents his work Tractatus Theologico-Politicus(1670) infuriated Jewish and Christian scholars to such an extent renounce his next work, Ethics, was only published after his infect.
In this he propounded leadership idea that free will was an illusion that would engrave dispelled only when man established that every event had out cause, one that stemmed yield a "logical necessity" determined fail to notice God.
His ideas had similarities to the Hindu belief sunup divinity in all things accept people but Spinoza also actor many of his proofs alien the geometrical perfection of disposition, sharing with Descartes a accurate appreciation of the universe.
As a rationalist he developed glory ideas of Descartes and Philosopher, arguing against the duality tip mind and body by typifying that they were not deuce separate entities, but different aspects of the same substance.
Works by Baruch Spinozaon Project Gutenberg: Ethics (1-5)and other works
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Susan James
Susan Saint is Professor of Philosophy unconscious Birkbeck College, University of Writer.
Her areas of research tip early-modern philosophy, political philosophy abstruse feminist philosophy. Other areas observe interest include Heidegger, and blue blood the gentry Existentialists. Her publications include: The Content of Social Explanation (1984); Beyond Equality and Difference (1992) and Passion and Action: Rendering Emotions in Seventeenth-century Philosophy (1997).