Benedict de Spinoza's writings laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and for modern Biblical criticism. By virtue of his magnum opus ...

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently ...

    Benedictus de Spinoza's ground-breaking philosophy made him a controversial figure of 17 th  century Rationalism and a major ...

Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct... attribute human infirmities and fickleness, not to the power of nature in general, but to some mysterious ...

If men's minds were as easily controlled as their tongues, every king would sit safely on his throne, and government by compulsion would cease; for every ...

Benedict de Spinoza's writings laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and for modern Biblical criticism. By virtue of his magnum opus ...