The Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza ranks as a major thinker in the rationalist tradition, and his Ethics is a classic of Western philosophy. His writings express the crucial issues of metaphysics more clearly than in any thinker since Plato. Baruch,...

The Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) ranks as a major thinker in the rationalist tradition, and his Ethics is a classic of Western philosophy. In his writings the crucial issues of metaphysics are exemplified more clearly than in any...

. 1632–77. Jewish philosopher who was born and lived in Holland, working as a lens-grinder. He is usually counted among the ‘Continental RATIONALISTS’, and his main work is his Ethics. In this he sets out to give a systematic...

(1632–1677). Philosopher. Spinoza’s major works were the Tractatus Theologico Politico and his Ethics. He was put under a *ban of excommunication by the Jewish community for his ‘abominable heresies’. He denied the divine origin...

Spinoza, Benedict (Baruch) De(1632 s Heresy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Smith, Steven, Spinoza, Liberalism and the Question of Jewish Identity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. Wolfson, Harry Austryn. The Philosophy of Spinoza. 2...

SPINOZA, BARUCH (1632–1677; known as Bento in Portuguese, Benedictus in Latin) was a Jewish rational naturalist of Marrano descent and the author of a rigorously monistic interpretation of reality expressed through an interlocking chain of...

Baruch de Spinoza (Hebrew: ברוך שפינוזה‎, Portuguese: Bento de Espinosa, Basque: Benedict de Spinoza, Latin: Benedictus de Spinoza) (November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing...

The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy cites Jorge Luis Borges--along with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Heine, George Eliot, and George Sand, Somerset Maugham, and Bernard Malamud--as creative writers influenced by Baruch Spinoza. The inclusion of Borges in this list honors the Argentine fabulist, but it is...

RESUMEN: En el marco de la Sustancia omniabarcadora, eje del pensamiento de Spinoza, la nocion de muerte no esta exenta de problemas. Si se la concibe como la destruccion del cuerpo, pareciera que dicha definicion complica sustantivamente nuestra concepcion de la muerte. Pues...

Today is Monday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2007. There are 98 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 24, 1789, Congress passed a Judiciary Act that provided for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.On this date:In 1869, thousands of businessmen...

In the essay that follows, Donagan explores Spinoza's fusion of naturalism and supernaturalism in his theology, and discusses his views on particular issues such as revelation, faith, and the immortality of the soul.

In the essay that follows, Popkin studies the Biblical scholarship of the Theological-Political Treatise, evaluating the ways in which Spinoza's religious views reflected his overriding rational secularism.

In this essay, Donagan interprets Spinoza's philosophy of freedom in terms of his metaphysics.