One of Gilles Deleuze's dissertations was on this man's "expressionism." He distinguished between false and fictitious ideas in his On the Improvement of the Understanding. In his earliest tract, he denied the mind-matter duality of Decartes and held that the existence of free will cannot be accounted for, while in a later work he advocated a historical reading of the Bible and accounted for miracles as moral fables, not natural events. His neutral monism and accused pantheism may have led to this author of Tractatus Theologico-Politicus being "excommunicatied" by the Dutch Jewish community. F
One of Gilles Deleuze's dissertations was on this man's "expressionism." He distinguished between false and fictitious ideas in his On the Improvement of the Understanding. In his earliest tract, he denied the mind-matter duality of Decartes and held that the existence of free will cannot be accounted for, while in a later work he advocated a historical reading of the Bible and accounted for miracles as moral fables, not natural events. His neutral monism and accused pantheism may have led to this author of Tractatus Theologico-Politicus being "excommunicatied" by the Dutch Jewish community. For 10 points, name this writer of Ethics.
One of Gilles Deleuze's dissertations was on this man's "expressionism."
Baruch de Spinoza