Baruch Spinoza

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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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Baruch Spinoza canonical 91
Spinoza 6
Benedictus de Spinoza 3

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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 self-link
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 Sephardi Jews
surface form: Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam
excommunicationYear 1656
familyName Baruch Spinoza self-linksurface differs
surface form: Spinoza
givenName Baruch Spinoza self-linksurface differs
surface form: Baruch
influenced Albert Einstein
Enlightenment philosophers
Friedrich Nietzsche
G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: 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 self-link
Baruch Spinoza self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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

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