Bento Spinoza, known in Hebrew as Baruch and in Latin as Benedictus, was born in 1632 in Amsterdam, the middle son in a prominent family of moderate means in the city's Portuguese-Jewish community. He is counted among the most important and most radical philosophers of the early modern period. His system combined Cartesian metaphysical principles with elements from ancient Stoicism, Hobbes and medieval Jewish rationalism. His naturalistic views on God, the world and knowledge ground a moral philosophy centered on the control of the passions, and they lay foundations for a strongly democratic political thought and a critique of Scripture and sectarian religion, set out in his Theological-Political Treatise.
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As a boy he had undoubtedly been one of the star pupils
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