What is Baruch Spinoza?
{{Infobox Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = [[17th-century philosophy]] | color = #B0C4DE | image = Spinoza.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | <!-- Information --> name = Baruch de Spinoza | birth = [[November 24]], [[1632]] ([[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]]) | death = [[February 21]], [[1677]] ([[The Hague]], [[Netherlands]]) (age 44) | school_tradition = [[Rationalism]], founder of [[Spinozism]] | main_interests = [[Ethics]], [[Epistemology]], [[Metaphysics]] | influences = [[Thomas Hobbes|Hobbes]], [[René Descartes|Descartes]], [[Stoicism|Stoics]], [[Avicenna]], [[Maimonides]], [[Nicholas of Cusa]], [[Aristotle]], [[Francis Bacon|Bacon]], [[Plato]] | influenced = [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]], [[Karl Heinrich Marx|Marx]], [[Donald Davidson (philosopher)|Davidson]], [[Arthur Schopenhauer|Schopenhauer]], [[Gilles Deleuze|Deleuze]], [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[Fichte]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], [[Ludwig Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]], [[Louis Althusser|Althusser]], [[Michael Hardt|Hardt]], [[Antonio Negri|Negri]], [[Erich Fromm|Fromm]], [[George Santayana|Santayana]], [[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling|Schelling]], [[Murray Bookchin|Bookchin]], [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]] | notable_ideas = [[Pantheism]], [[Conatus]], [[Deism]], [[neutral monism]], [[intellectual freedom|intellectual]] and [[Freedom of religion|religious freedom]] / [[separation of church and state]], Criticism of [[Moses|Mosaic]] authorship of certain books of the [[Hebrew Bible]], [[Government|Political society]] derived from [[Power (sociology)|power]], not [[Social contract|contract]] }} '''Baruch Spinoza''' also known as Benedict Spinoza (24 November [[1632]] in [[Amsterdam]] – 21 February [[1677]] in [[The Hague]]) was a [[The Netherlands|Dutch]] [[philosopher]] of [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[Jewish]] origin. He is considered to be one of the