Baruch spinoza brief biography of albert
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Baruch or Benedict dem Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Born Benedito dem Espinosa; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677, in Amsterdam, the son of Portuguese Jewish refugees who had fled from the persecution of the Spanish Inquisition. Although reared in the Jewish community, he rebelled against its religious views and practices, and at the age of 24 was formally excommunicated from the Portuguese-Spanish Synagogue of Amsterdam. He was thus effectively cast out of the Jewish world and joined a group of nonconfessional Christians (although he never became a Christian), the Collegiants, who professed no creeds or practices but shared a spiritual brotherhood. He was also involved with the Quaker mission in Amsterdam. filosof eventually settled in The Hague, where he lived quietly, studying philosophy, science, and theology, discussing his ideas with a small circle of independent thinkers, and earning his living as a len
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Biography of Baruch Spinoza:
Dutch philosopher, Jewish and Portuguese by birth. Associated with the Christian liberal and free thinkers circles, Benedict [Baruch] de Spinoza was attracted by the Cartesian philosophy and eager for knowledge. To be able to devote himself to his intellectual activities, he earned his living polishing microscope glasses. Spinoza was excommunicated in 1656 because of his attitude judged too free compared to the practices of Judaism. He lived then as a free man without following a particular religion.After a critical examination of the Bible (it was the first real rationalist exegesis), Spinoza concluded it had been written to catch the imagination and it provides neither teaching, nor metaphysics and does not learn anything on God. He thus introduced a fundamental separation between faith and knowledge.
When he wrote "Deus sive Natura" (God or nature), Spinoza identified the divinity with the whole of the real world, contrary to the traditional
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Albert Einstein and the God of Spinoza
When Einstein gave lectures at U.S. universities, the recurring question that students asked him most was “Do you believe in God?” And he always answered: “I believe in the God of Spinoza.
Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, along with René Descartes.
According to Spinoza, God would say
Stop praying and pounding your chest.
What I want you to do is go out into the world and enjoy your life. I want you to sing, have fun and enjoy everything I’ve made for you.
Stop going into those dark, cold temples that you built yourself and saying they are my house. My house is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes, beaches. That’s where I live and there I express my love for you.
Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you there was anything wrong with you or that you were