Spinoza, Benedict

Cultural  

1. A seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher who argued for a form of pantheism and set out his arguments like proofs in geometry. Spinoza earned a living by grinding lenses for spectacles and telescopes.

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Example Sentences

Spinoza, Benedict, xi, 129; excommunication of, viii, 224; Grotius compared with, viii, 228; influence of, viii, 206; on the Mennonites, viii, 211; Novalis on, viii, 233; parents of, viii, 210; philosophy of, viii, 234; Renan on, viii, 229, 233; Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, viii, 232; Van der Spijck and, viii, 228.

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