The Enlightenment and Spinoza's revolutionary rationalism

Born in 1632 in the Dutch Republic, the rationalist philosopher Baruch Spinoza was one of the great fathers of Enlightenment thinking. As Hamid Alizadeh explains, Spinoza’s philosophy – which contained a materialist and atheistic kernel  – represented a revolutionary challenge to the authority of both Church and state.

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