This philosopher argued that our intuition about God was the only way we could have true, or "adequate," ideas. He divided nature into "substances," "attributes," and "modes" in a work that opens with fifteen axiomatic propositions. This philosopher argued that the Torah could not have been entirely written by Moses in his (*) Tractatus Theologico- Politicus. He called the control our passions have over us "bondage," and he claimed that God and Nature are the same thing, thus opposing the dualism of his contemporary Descartes. For 10 points, name philosopher who wrote a "geometrically ordered" Ethics and was kicked ou
This philosopher argued that our intuition about God was the only way we could have true, or "adequate," ideas. He divided nature into "substances," "attributes," and "modes" in a work that opens with fifteen axiomatic propositions. This philosopher argued that the Torah could not have been entirely written by Moses in his (*) Tractatus Theologico- Politicus. He called the control our passions have over us "bondage," and he claimed that God and Nature are the same thing, thus opposing the dualism of his contemporary Descartes. For 10 points, name philosopher who wrote a "geometrically ordered" Ethics and was kicked out of Dutch Jewish society.
This philosopher argued that our intuition about God was the only way we could have true, or "adequate," ideas.