Benedictus De Spinoza

Benedictus de Spinoza (1632–1677), also known as Baruch Spinoza, was a Dutch philosopher whose bold and original ideas transformed the history of Western philosophy. Widely regarded as one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century, Spinoza believed that reason, rather than superstition or prejudice, should guide human understanding. His writings on ethics, religion, politics, and the nature of real...