"As early as the 1670s, and continually, right through the eighteenth century, one finds numerous references in the contemporary controversial literature, theological, philosophical and historical, in all the Western European countries, to âSpinozaâ as supposedly the foremost and most dangerous of the âatheistsâ threatening Christianity, society and the moral order generally, and the âsect of Spinozistsâ specifically as the veritable hard-core of the libertine underground challenging all the structures of authority then in place."
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Baruch Spinoza
philosopher, Bible translator, grinder of lenses
1632 â 1677 · Dutch Republic
Benedictus de Spinoza (24 November 1632 â 21 February 1677) was a social and metaphysical philosopher known for the elaborate development of his monist philosophy, which has become known as Spinozism. Controversy regarding his ideas led to his excommunication from the Jewish community of his native Amsterdam. He was named Baruch ("blessed" in Hebrew) Spinoza by his synagogue elders and known as Bento de Spinoza or Bento d'Espiñoza, but afterwards used the name Benedictus ("blessed" in Latin) de
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