This man's political views are discussed in a book by Lewis Feuer which considers him "and the rise of liberalism," while his best-known work has been the subject of books by Alan Donagan, Jonathan Bennett, and Edwin Curley.  In his lifetime, this man clarified many of his views through correspondence with George Hermann Schuller and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.  This man warmed up for his best-known work by writing a short text which was lost until the 19th century, the Short Treatise on God, Man and his Well-Being.  He offered an account of four kinds of knowledge in his Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, but is better known for a book in five parts which considers the "origin and nature of the affects" and the "power of the intellect, or human freedom."  FTP, name this rationalist philosopher who used his "geometric me
This man's political views are discussed in a book by Lewis Feuer which considers him "and the rise of liberalism," while his best-known work has been the subject of books by Alan Donagan, Jonathan Bennett, and Edwin Curley.  In his lifetime, this man clarified many of his views through correspondence with George Hermann Schuller and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.  This man warmed up for his best-known work by writing a short text which was lost until the 19th century, the Short Treatise on God, Man and his Well-Being.  He offered an account of four kinds of knowledge in his Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, but is better known for a book in five parts which considers the "origin and nature of the affects" and the "power of the intellect, or human freedom."  FTP, name this rationalist philosopher who used his "geometric method" to demonstrate the propositions of his Ethics.
This man's political views are discussed in a book by Lewis Feuer which considers him "and the rise of liberalism," while his best-known work has been the subject of books by Alan Donagan, Jonathan Bennett, and Edwin Curley.  
Benedict de Spinoza or Baruch Spinoza