"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
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About Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza was 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. His magnum opus, the Ethics, in which he opposed Descartes’ mind–body dualism, has earned him recognition as one of Western philosophy's most important philosophers.
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