Baruch Spinoza
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages · author page
Spinoza
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Philosopher described as a Pantheist and Monist, called 'God-intoxicated.'
Spinoza was a voluntary martyr in the cause of Free Thought.
The Second Section of the Library (ten volumes) is devoted to the presentation of Government, Philosophy, Law and Ethics.
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
Dutch rationalist philosopher whose thought is identified as revived in Fichte and Schelling.
The continued power of the pre-Kantian modes of thought is shown by the fact that Spinoza has been revived in Fichte and Schelling, Leibnitz in Herbart and Hegel, the sensationalism of the French Illuminati in Feuerbach;
Law in a Free State
Philosopher quoted and paraphrased as condemning sexual love as madness and holding passion wicked even within marriage.
And Spinoza condemns love as “a species of madness,” and as promoting “discord rather than harmony.