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Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Dutch philosopher, and his ideas were quite radical and continue to spark debate even today. Baruch (later Benedictus) Spinoza was born in Amsterdam in 1632 to a Portuguese Jewish family.
Spinoza’s claim that all things are in God, a doctrine now known as panentheism, undercut this anthropomorphic theology and challenged the crudely moralistic view of the human good that was based upon it.
Benedictus de Spinoza, Clare Carlisle, • Spinoza's Ethics
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
John Berger • Bento's Sketchbook
Benedict (or Bento) de Spinoza
John Berger • Bento's Sketchbook
SPINOZA (1634-77) is the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers. Intellectually, some others have surpassed him, but ethically he is supreme.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Feuerbach developed Spinoza’s panentheist insistence that everything is in God—including, of course, human beings—into the quite contrary doctrine that the human being is God.
Benedictus de Spinoza, Clare Carlisle, • Spinoza's Ethics
passionnés. Spinoza a l’ambition de démontrer, de manière quasi objective, l’intelligence et l’harmonie profondes qui unissent tout le réel. Partant de Dieu, défini comme la substance unique de ce qui est, il entend montrer que tout a une cause – de l’ordre cosmique au désordre de nos passions – et que tout s’explique par les lois universelles de l
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