| birth_place = [[Amsterdam]], [[Dutch Republic]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1677|2|21|1632|11|24}}
| death_place = [[The Hague]], [[Dutch Republic]]
| residence = Netherlands
| nationality = [[Dutch fowk|Dutch]]
| school_tradition = [[Rationalism]], foonder o [[Spinozism]]
| main_interests = Ethics, [[Epistemology]], [[Metaphysics]], Ebreu Grammar
| influences = [[René Descartes|Descartes]], [[Stoicism|Stoics]], [[Maimonides]], [[Abraham ibn Ezra]], [[Avicenna]], [[Averroes]],<ref>Scruton 1986 (2002 ed.), ch. 2: "Through the works of Moses Maimonides and the commentaries of the Arab Averroës, Spinoza would have become acquainted with Aristotle."</ref> [[Aristotle]], [[Democritus]], [[Lucretius]], [[Epicurus]], [[Niccolo Machiavelli]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Giordano Bruno]], [[Franciscus van den Enden]]
| influenced = [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]], [[Arne Næss|Næss]], [[Karl Heinrich Marx|Marx]],<ref name=tws908/> [[Gabriel Wagner|G. Wagner]], [[Donald Davidson (philosopher)|Davidson]], [[Gilles Deleuze|Deleuze]], [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[George Eliot]], [[Fichte]], [[Novalis]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]],<ref name=tws908/> [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], [[Ludwig Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]], [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]], [[Louis Althusser|Althusser]], [[Michael Hardt|Hardt]], [[Antonio Negri|Negri]], [[George Santayana|Santayana]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], [[Leo Strauss]], [[Georges Bataille]]
| notable_ideas = [[Pantheism]], [[determinism]], [[neutral monism]], [[intellectual freedom|intellectual]] an [[Freedom o releegion|releegious freedom]], [[separation o kirk an state]], creeticism o [[Moses|Mosaic]] authorship o some beuks o the [[Ebreu Bible]], [[Govrenment|poleetical society]] derived frae [[Pouer (sociology)|pouer]], nae [[Social contract|contract]]
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'''Baruch Spinoza''' ({{IPA-nl|baːˈrux spɪˈnoːzaː|lang}}; born '''Benedito de Espinosa''', {{IPA-pt|benɨˈðitu ðɨ iʃpɨˈnozɐ}}; 24 November 1632 – 21 Februar 1677, later '''Benedict de Spinoza''') wis a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] philosopher o [[Sephardi]] [[Portugal|Portuguese]] oreegin.<ref name=tws908>{{cite news | author=Anthony Gottlieb | title = God Exists, Philosophically (review of "Spinoza: A Life" by Steven Nadler) | publisher=The New York Times, Books. 18 July 1999 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/18/reviews/990718.18gottlit.html | accessdate =7 September 2009}}</ref> Ane o the early thinkers o the [[Age o Enlichtment|Enlichtment]]<ref name=tws9907>{{cite news |title=The Spinoza Problem |first=Irvin |last=Yalom |work=The Washington Post |date=21 February 2012 |url=https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-21/entertainment/35442915_1_history-teacher-novel-theories |accessdate=7 March 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112073417/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-21/entertainment/35442915_1_history-teacher-novel-theories |archivedate=12 November 2013 |df=dmy-all }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112073417/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-21/entertainment/35442915_1_history-teacher-novel-theories |date=2013-11-12 }}</ref> an modren [[biblical creeticism]],<ref>Yovel, Yirmiyahu, ''Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Adventures of Immanence'' ([[Princeton University Press]], 1992), p. 3</ref> includin modren conceptions o the sel an the universe,<ref name=tws9906>{{cite news | title = Destroyer and Builder |work=[[The New Republic]] | date = 3 May 2012 | url = https://newrepublic.com/book/review/book-forged-hell-spinoza-treatise-steven-nadler | accessdate =7 March 2013}}</ref> he cam tae be conseedert ane o the great [[raitionalism|raitionalists]] o [[17t-century philosophie]].{{sfn|Scruton|2002|p=26}} Inspired bi the grundbrakin ideas o [[René Descartes]], Spinoza becam a leadin philosophical feegur of the [[Dutch Gowden Age]]. Spinoza's gien name, that means "Blessed", varies amang different leids. In Ebreu, it is written {{Hebrew|ברוך שפינוזה}}. His Portuguese name is {{lang|pt|Benedito "Bento" de Espinosa}} or {{Lang|pt|d'Espinosa}}. In his Laitin warks, he uised {{lang-la|Benedictus de Spinoza|links=no}}.