This man rejected sensual pleasure, by which "the mind is enthralled to the extent of quiescence," when debating whether to change "the conduct and us
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.