Baruch Spinoza

Details

Birth Date 24 November 1632

Death Date 21 February 1677

Personal Name Benedictus de Spinoza

Alternate Names

Benedictus de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict Spinoza
Baruch de Spinoza

Official Sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/473

A Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy (Wikipedia).