Baruch Spinoza

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Dutch philosopher Enlightenment precursor Sephardi Jew early modern philosopher ethicist human metaphysician philosopher political philosopher rationalist philosopher

Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century rationalist philosopher whose works on metaphysics, ethics, and religion profoundly influenced Enlightenment thought and modern philosophy.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Dutch philosopher → Enlightenment precursor → Sephardi Jew → early modern philosopher → ethicist → human → metaphysician → philosopher → political philosopher → rationalist philosopher →
birthDate	1632-11-24 →
birthName	Baruch Spinoza →
birthPlace	Amsterdam → Dutch Republic →
causeOfDeath	tuberculosis →
citizenship	Dutch Republic →
deathDate	1677-02-21 →
deathPlace	Dutch Republic → The Hague →
era	17th-century philosophy → Age of Enlightenment precursor →
ethnicGroup	Sephardi Jews →
excommunicatedBy	Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam →
excommunicationYear	1656 →
familyName	Spinoza →
givenName	Baruch →
influenced	Albert Einstein → Enlightenment philosophers → Friedrich Nietzsche → Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → biblical criticism →
influencedBy	Maimonides → René Descartes → Stoicism → Thomas Hobbes →
language	Dutch → Latin → Portuguese →
mainInterest	biblical criticism → epistemology → ethics → metaphysics → philosophy of religion → political philosophy →
name	Baruch Spinoza → Benedictus de Spinoza →
notableEvent	excommunication from the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish community →
notableIdea	Deus sive Natura → ethical rationalism → intellectual love of God → necessitarianism → parallelism of mind and body → substance monism →
notableWork	Ethics → Principles of Cartesian Philosophy → Tractatus Politicus → Tractatus Theologico-Politicus → Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect →
occupation	lens grinder → philosopher →
philosophicalSchool	continental philosophy → monism → pantheism → rationalism →
religion	Judaism →
viewOnFreeWill	denied libertarian free will →
viewOnGod	identified God with Nature →
viewOnMindBody	mind-body parallelism →
viewOnScripture	advocated historical-critical study of the Bible →

Referenced by (57)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ages of the World → Arne Næss ("Spinoza") → Arthur Schopenhauer → Baron d'Holbach → Friedrich Schleiermacher → Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling → Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling → G. W. F. Hegel → George Eliot → German idealism → Gilles Deleuze → Johann Gottlieb Fichte → Johann Wolfgang von Goethe → Jorge Luis Borges → Ludwig Feuerbach → Moses Mendelssohn → Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom → System of Transcendental Idealism → Système de la nature ("Spinoza") →	influencedBy
Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata → Ethics (Spinoza) → Opera Posthuma → Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects → Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects ("Benedict de Spinoza") → Part V: Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty → Part V: Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty ("Benedict de Spinoza") → Principles of Cartesian Philosophy → Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being → Spinoza, Ethics, Part I → Tractatus Politicus → Tractatus Theologico-Politicus → Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect →	author
Lucretius → Maimonides → René Descartes → Thomas Hobbes →	influenced
Baruch Spinoza → Baruch Spinoza ("Benedictus de Spinoza") →	name
Deus sive Natura →	associatedPhilosopher
Enlightenment rationalism →	associatedWith
Baruch Spinoza →	birthName
Henry Oldenburg →	correspondedWith
Baruch Spinoza ("Spinoza") →	familyName
Baruch Spinoza ("Baruch") →	givenName
Deus sive Natura →	hasAuthor
Spinozism →	hasCentralFigure
Western philosophy →	hasKeyFigure
Leiden University →	hasNotableAlumnus
Cartesianism →	influencedPhilosopher
Guide for the Perplexed ("Spinoza") →	influenceOn
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy →	isEarlyWorkOf
Spinozism →	namedAfter
Dutch Golden Age →	notableFigure
Dutch Republic →	notablePhilosopher
On the History of Modern Philosophy →	philosopherDiscussed
Opera Posthuma →	relatedTo
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect →	writtenBy