Baruch Spinoza

Benedictus de Spinoza (November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Jewish-Dutch philosopher.

He is considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy and, by virtue of his magnum opus the Ethics, one of the definitive ethicists.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza
• http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/spinoza.htm