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Chapter Sixteen: Benedictus de Spinoza
Brief Biography of Benedictus de Spinoza: Summary of Ideas, Portrait & Quotes
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Chapter
Sixteen: Benedictus de Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza was born in Amsterdam in 1632 into a Jewish
family. He had a Jewish education, resisted orthodoxy, was later excommunicated
of heresy and changed his name to Benedictus de Spinoza in 1656. The Christians
didn't think much of Spinoza either (though his whole philosophy is based on
God) and the orthodox accused him of atheism.
Despite such ill treatment and unpopularity (his main philosophical work 'Ethics'
was published posthumously) Spinoza lived a simple and noble life polishing
lenses, displaying an indifference to money, fame and power. ...
Spinoza's Ethics is written in five parts, in a highly logical style of definitions,
propositions and proofs. It begins with his Metaphysics, 'Concerning God',
and then later addresses the Nature of Mind, Emotions, Intellect, Reason and
Will. For Spinoza, God and Nature were One. In Ethics he describes God as of
One Infinite Eternal Substance which exists. ... (see book for more)
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. ... Everything,
I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the
infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
A free man, who lives among ignorant people,
tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. ... He who lives under
the guidance of
reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow’s hatred, rage,
contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
All the arguments by which the vulgar are wont to explain nature are nothing
else than modes of imagination, and indicate the nature of nothing whatever,
but only the constitution of the imagination; and although they have names
as if they were entities existing outside the imagination, I call them entities,
not of reality, but of the imagination; (Spinoza, Ethics)
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