Spinoza

[ spi-noh-zuh ]

noun

1. Ba·ruch [b, uh, -, rook], or Be·ne·dict de [ben, -, uh, -dikt d, uh], 1632–77, Dutch philosopher.

Spinoza

/ spɪˈnəʊzə /

noun

1. SpinozaBaruch16321677MDutchPHILOSOPHY: 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)

Example Sentences

Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.

From Nautilus

Peace, Spinoza said, is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

From The Daily Beast

Biographical works on philosophers followed— Kurt Godel, then Baruch Spinoza, her favorite philosopher.

From The Daily Beast

God is always what Spinoza called it, "the asylum of ignorance."

From Project Gutenberg

"God" is always what Spinoza called it, the asylum of ignorance.

From Project Gutenberg

I endeavoured once to make Spinoza's system intelligible,—to show that all things are merely accidents of a single substance.

From Project Gutenberg

He did not make a system, like Descartes or Spinoza or Newton: he showed the way to make it on sound principles.

From Project Gutenberg

It is of interest here to know that Spinoza, as has been shown by Joel, owed his idea of man's freedom to Crescas.

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