Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Portuguese Jewish philosopher who was a major influence on Enlightenment thought. Living and working in Amsterdam, Spinoza asserted that God should be considered as a causa sui, a position which, among others, led to both his expulsion from the Jewish community and persecution by Christian authorities as a blasphemer.
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Spinoza Character Timeline in Beyond Good and Evil
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1. On the Prejudices of Philosophers
...than an unconscious expression of philosophers’ moral prejudices. Nietzsche gives the examples of Kant and Spinoza but claims that this critique indeed applies to philosophers throughout history.
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