Question: Which Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin made a contribution in conatus?
Context: The Lançados (literally "the thrown out ones") were settlers and adventurers of Portuguese origin in Senegambia, the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea, Sierra Leone and other areas on the coast of West Africa.  Many were Jews, often New Christians, escaping persecution from the Portuguese Inquisition.  "Lançados" often took African wives from local ruling families, enabling protection and advantageous trading ties.  They established clandestine trading networks in weaponry, spices, and sometimes slaves, garnering anger from the Portuguese Crown due to its inability to collect taxes. Francisco Sanches (c. 1550 – November 16, 1623) was a Portuguese skeptic philosopher and physician of Sephardi Jewish origin. The cuisine of the Sephardi Jews is an assortment of cooking traditions that developed among the Sephardi Jews – the Jews of Spain and Portugal, and those of this Iberian origin who were dispersed in the Sephardic Diaspora, and ultimately became the Eastern Sephardim and North African Sephardim as they settled throughout the Mediterranean in places such as Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, as well as the Arab countries of West Asia and North Africa.  Cuisine of the Sephardi Jews also includes the cuisine of those who became the Western Sephardim who settled in Holland, England, and from these places elsewhere. The square-rigged caravel, originally "caravela redonda " in Portuguese (meaning round caravel, but of the type with Portuguese origin), also called caravela de armada (generically and also particularly for a largest or strong major sub-type of this ship) was a sailing ship created by the Portuguese in the second half of the fifteenth century.  Its use was most notorious from the end of that century.  The square-rigged caravel had a notable role in the Portuguese expansion during the age of discovery, especially in the first half of the sixteenth century, for its exceptional maneuverability and combat capabilities.  This ship was also sometimes adopted by other European powers.  The hull was galleon-shaped, and some experts consider this vessel a forerunner of the fighting galleon. In early philosophies of psychology and metaphysics, conatus ( ; Latin for "effort; endeavor; impulse, inclination, tendency; undertaking; striving") is an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself.  This "thing" may be mind, matter or a combination of both.  Over the millennia, many different definitions and treatments have been formulated.  Seventeenth-century philosophers René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, and Thomas Hobbes made important contributions.  The "conatus" may refer to the instinctive "will to live" of living organisms or to various metaphysical theories of motion and inertia.  Often the concept is associated with God's will in a pantheist view of Nature.  The concept may be broken up into separate definitions for the mind and body and split when discussing centrifugal force and inertia. Sephardi Hebrew (or Sepharadi Hebrew) is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jewish practice.  Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Spanish, Ladino, Arabic, Portuguese and Greek. Baruch Spinoza ( ; ] ; born Benedito de Espinosa, ] ; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677, later Benedict de Spinoza) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin.  By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy.  Along with René Descartes, Spinoza was a leading philosophical figure of the Dutch Golden Age.  Spinoza's given name, which means "Blessed", varies among different languages.  In Hebrew, it is written ברוך שפינוזה .  His Portuguese name is Benedito "Bento" de Espinosa .  In his Latin works, he used Latin: "Benedictus de Spinoza" . Moidore is an archaic term used to describe gold coins of Portuguese origin.  These coins usually feature a facial value of ""4000 réis"", the Portuguese Coat of Arms in its obverse, and the Order of Christ Cross in its reverse, and were minted from 1677 to as late as 1910, mainly in Portugal and in Portuguese colonies like Brazil and Mozambique. The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th-century financiers in Paris, France, who were rivals of the Rothschilds.  Like the Rothschilds, they were Jews, but unlike them the Péreire brothers were Sephardi Jews of Portuguese origin. The Most Serene House of Braganza (Portuguese: "Sereníssima Casa de Bragança" ), or the Brigantine Dynasty ("Dinastia Brigantina"), also known in the Empire of Brazil as the Most August House of Braganza (Portuguese: "Augustíssima Casa de Bragança" ), is a dynasty of emperors, kings, princes, and dukes of Portuguese origin, a branch of the House of Aviz.
Answer: Baruch Spinoza