Richard H. Popkin
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Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles. Author of History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza.
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Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch Jewish philosopher, one of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal figures of the Enlightenment. His masterwork is the treatise Ethics (1677). Spinoza’s Portuguese parents were among many Jews who were forcibly converted to…
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