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Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
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A humble man who made his living grinding lenses for glasses and telescopes Spinoza was the most influential supporter of Pantheism, the belief that God exists in everything.
advocated by Susan James
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'Ignorance is no argument.'
A humble man who made his living grinding lenses for glasses and telescopes Spinoza was the most influential supporter of Pantheism, the belief that God exists in everything.
His theories were encapsulated in the formula "Deus sive natura" (God, otherwise Nature).
A Dutch philosopher born of Jewish parents his work Tractatus Theologico-Politicus(1670) infuriated Jewish and Christian scholars to such an extent that his next work, Ethics, was only published after his death.
In this he propounded the idea that free will was an illusion that would be dispelled only when man recognised that every event had a cause, one that stemmed from a "logical necessity" determined by God.
His ideas had similarities to the Hindu belief of divinity in all things and people but Spinoza also drew many of his proofs from the geometrical perfect