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Spinoza

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Spi·no·za  (sp-nz), Baruch or Benedict 1632-1677.
Dutch philosopher and theologian whose controversial pantheistic doctrine advocated an intellectual love of God. His best-known work is Ethics (1677).
Spinoza [spɪˈnəʊzə]
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(Biographies / Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677) M, Dutch, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) Baruch (bəˈruːk). 1632-77, Dutch philosopher who constructed a holistic metaphysical system derived from a series of hypotheses that he judged self-evident. His chief work is Ethics (1677)
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Noun1.Spinoza - Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677)Spinoza - Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677)
Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict de Spinoza, de Spinoza
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The system of Spinoza is less personal and also less dualistic than that of Descartes.
Meno by Plato View in context
Of late in Moscow and in the country, since he had become convinced that he would find no solution in the materialists, he had read and reread thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non-materialistic explanation of life.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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