This man rejected sensual pleasure, by which "the mind is enthralled to the extent of quiescence," when debating whether to change "the conduct and usual plan of [his] life" in order to write a work in which he defined the grades of knowledge; namely, opinion, reason, and in
This man rejected sensual pleasure, by which "the mind is enthralled to the extent of quiescence," when debating whether to change "the conduct and usual plan of [his] life" in order to write a work in which he defined the grades of knowledge; namely, opinion, reason, and intuition. This philosopher asserted that miracles come from ignorance and that Ezra wrote most of the New Testament, and defended biblical criticism in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. This man's "panentheism" was defined by the first section of a work whose fourth chapter is entitled "Of Human Bondage." For 10 points, name this rationalist author of Ethics, a Dutch Jew.
This man rejected sensual pleasure, by which "the mind is enthralled to the extent of quiescence," when debating whether to change "the conduct and usual plan of [his] life" in order to write a work in which he defined the grades of knowledge; namely, opinion, reason, and intuition.