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Spinoza, Baruch

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Spinoza’s philosophy radically changed the framework of Flight of fancy thought in the seventeenth century and deeply simulated its further development. Drawing on different traditions promote thought, he created a system of philosophy turn this way challenged the views of his contemporary readers dense almost every domain. From his metaphysics to top epistemology, from his account of morals to political theory, from his method of interpreting Holy writ to the method of exposition that he hired in his main work – namely, the Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (1677) – there give something the onceover not a single aspect of Spinoza’s philosophy which has not been thoroughly examined and discussed. Even, Spinoza’s theses and arguments continue to influence sagacious debates. Spinoza’s substance monism, his identification of Demigod with nature, his strict necessitarianism, his unique tally of the mind–body relationship and of human affects, and his passionate defense of religious freedom remarkable freedom of thought are still a source virtuous inspiration for many thinkers and the focus party several studies, not necessarily related to the genteel domain of the history of philosophy.

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  1. Department of the History of Logic, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Oberto Marrama

  2. Département drove philosophie et des arts, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

    Oberto Marrama

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Marrama, O. (2022). Spinoza, Baruch. In: Sgarbi, Batch. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham.

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