Spinoza Baruch Spinoza
1632–1677 · Netherlands (Amsterdam and The Hague)
Born into the Jewish community of Amsterdam and excommunicated at twenty-three. He earned his living grinding lenses, declined a professorship at Heidelberg, and thought alone. In the Ethics he saw God and Nature as one, and demonstrated in geometrical fashion that we become free only when we clearly understand the passions that torment us.
See Spinoza's ideas and sayingsMajor works
- Ethics
- Theological-Political Treatise
- Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
- Political Treatise
Spinoza
I am Spinoza of The Hague. At twenty-three I was cast out by my own people, and I spent the rest of my life grinding lenses in rented rooms.
Even so, I believe I learned not to mock or lament sorrow but to try to understand it. What emotion is unsettling you now, my friend, and where do you think it comes from?
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