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Benedictus de Spinoza
[Baruch de Spinoza] (1632-1677)
Born 1632 in Holland of a Jewish family that had been exiled from
Spain and Portugal. He early showed great powers as a student, and
in 1656 was banned by the Jewish community at Amsterdam because of
his views. His chief work, which had a lasting influence upon future
generations of thinkers, long after the author's death in 1677, is
The Ethics, which has recently appeared in a new edition titled
The Road to Inner Freedom, New York, 1957.
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