Baruch Spinoza the great philosopher.

Baruch Spinoza one of the most important figures and original thinker of seventeenth-century who greatly flourished in the second half of the seventeenth-century.

He was born and educated in the Jewish community. Every philosophical discourse, like metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, epistemology and philosophy of science revolves around Spinoza’s philosophy.

Among philosophers, he was best known for his great work in ethics. 

His tremendous work established deeply and firmly an ethical sight unfolding out of a monistic metaphysics, in that God and Nature are recognized.

The Theologica-Political Treatise, and the Ethics are two books which greatly contain Spinoza’s philosophy. The former book Theologica-Political Treatise was published during his lifetime, but the latter.

The Ethics’ was not published until after his death in 1677, which contains the entirety of his philosophical system in its most rigorous form.

Like Plato, Aristotle and many other philosophers he had rejected traditional religion and conception of God. 

He believed anthropomorphic of God, he sees God infinite, eternal, uncaused, necessary, and indivisible.

Yet, Spinoza make conspicuous move of discovering God with nature. He believed that nature is not a creation of God and he believed in Judeo-Christian tradition. Spinoza’s claim to affirm the existence of God was therefore no move towards elusion.

Spinoza believed, senses that disclosed the important things of nature rather than intellect. According to him, except for God, no substance could be or be conceived. He criticizes all basic tenets of transcendental conception of God.

He believed that Torah was not written by Mosses and according to him that prophets had realistic imagination.

People were unable to predict that whether Baruch Spinoza was an atheist (someone who don’t believe on the existence of God) or a deist (someone who sees God as having created the world, and doing nothing else).

In the modern world many people have been attracted to Spinoza because of his rejection of traditional religion and scientific understanding of nature. And because of his believe and argument that God was infinite being, God was infinite substance, consisting of infinite attributes.

Spinoza also believed that evil was a lack of good and that falsehood was a lack of truth. Error and falsehood arose from inadequate knowledge of God. (Norris, (1991).

Spinoza was a Jewish philosopher born in 1632 in Amsterdam. He was a Dutch scholar, epistemologist, metaphysician, philosopher and political theorist.

Spinoza’s family had originally from Spain, but had been forced during the Inquisition to seek refuge in Holland and he spent his whole life in Holland and he left to Amsterdam in 1660 AD. He lived successively in Rijnsburg, Voorburg and Hagu. He studied the philosophy of Descartes in the school of Francis Van den Emden between 1652 AD and 1656 AD.

At the age of twenty-two he forsook his given name ‘Baruch’ in favor of the Latin ‘Benedict. Many people see him as a perverse individual, a corrupter of social morals. As he begun unorthodox views of the God and nature and ceased to be fully observant of Jewish practice, the Jewish community exclude him from religious community in 1656 AD. (Wolfson, & Fackenheim, (1947).

He rejects a professorship at the University of Heidelberg partly on the grounds that it might obstruct with his intellectual freedom.

Due to consumption he died at the age of forty-four. His work creates such arguments and disputation that he decided not to publish his work the Ethics and many letters, which were found and published after he died, and likewise were immediately banned in Holland by the Catholic Church.