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An Animated Introduction to Baruch Spinoza: The “Philosopher’s Philosopher”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVEeXjPiw54 The so-called Enlightenment period encompasses a surprisingly diverse collection of thinkers, if not always in ethnic or national origin, at least in intellectual disposition, including perhaps the age’s most influential philosopher, the “philosopher’s philosopher,” writes Assad Meymandi. Baruch Spinoza did not fit the image of the bewigged philosopher-gentleman of means we tend to popularly […]
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