Baruch Spinoza. Engraving of Baruch Spinoza (1632- 77),Dutch philosopher. Spinoza supported himself by doing lens-grinding work whilst writing his philosophical works. Spinoza believed that God and the universe were identical entities; to under- stand the universe was to understand the mind of God. Spinoza corresponded with Oldenburg (secret- ary of the English Royal Society),Huygens,Boyle and Leibniz. In his Ethica (1677),Spinoza used a commentary on Euclidean geometry to derive meta- physical system. Spinoza died of a respiratory disease aggravated by glass dust in his lungs. Although ignored during his life,Spinoza is now seen as one of the most important philosophers | |
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