# Baruch Spinoza

> Excommunicated at twenty-three for ideas too dangerous for Amsterdam's synagogue, Spinoza wrote a philosophy that collapsed God into nature and stripped politics of divine authority — then published almost nothing until after he was dead.

*Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1632-11-24
- **Died:** 1677-02-21
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in 1632 to a Portuguese-Jewish merchant family that had fled the Inquisition for Amsterdam, Spinoza received a traditional Hebrew education before his questions about doctrine got him permanently expelled from the Jewish community in 1656. He turned to lens grinding for income and gathered a circle of followers who met to discuss the philosophy he was building in private. His Tractatus Theologico-Politicus challenged the divine origin of the Hebrew Bible and argued that religious authority had no place in a democratic state. Ethics, his major work, equated God with nature — a move read variously as pantheism or atheism — and mapped out human freedom in a world without theological anchors. Friends published his writings after his death in 1677, and two centuries of philosophers have argued over the blueprint he left.

## Fame
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## Topics
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