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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
When we worship God, he explained, we are really worshipping the perfection of humanity.
Benedictus de Spinoza, Clare Carlisle, • Spinoza's Ethics
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
We are not substances but modes of substance: ways in which substance is modified or affected.
Benedictus de Spinoza, Clare Carlisle, • Spinoza's Ethics
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.
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
John Berger • Bento's Sketchbook
Benedict (or Bento) de Spinoza