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A Short Biography of Baruch Spinoza

Author Name:

Baruch Spinoza

Born As:

Other Names:

Bento de Spinoza or Bento d'Espiñoza, but afterwards used the name Benedictus de Spinoza.

Born:

24 Nov 1632

Died:

21 Feb 1677




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Social and Metaphysical Philosopher                          
Selected Works:

Korte Verhandeling van God, de mensch en deszelvs welstand - Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being - 1660

Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione - On the Improvement of the Understanding - 1662

Principia philosophiae cartesianae - Principles of Cartesian Philosophy - 1663 - translated by Samuel Shirley, with an Introduction and Notes by Steven Barbone and Lee Rice, Indianapolis, 1998 - Gallica, in Latin

Tractatus Theologico-Politicus - A Theologico-Political Treatise - 1670
Tractatus Politicus - Unfinished) Pdf Version - 1975/76
Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata - The Ethics - 1677
Hebrew Grammar - 1677.                                              
Mother Ana Débora
Father Miguel  Spinoza                                              
                                              
Considered one of the great rationalists of the 17th-century philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment, modern biblical criticism and Western philosophy.

Spinoza believed God exists only philosophically and that God was abstract and impersonal.