For 10 points, name this Dutch Jewish philosopher who wrote Ethics.
This thinker claimed that people cannot imagine life without love because it's impossible to do so in A Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being. He used the definition of a circle to explain the distinction between definitions that describe properties of concepts and definitions that encompass the essence of an idea in On the Improvement of the Understanding. Another work questions whether the Hebrews were the only people who received prophecies from God after claiming the Torah was not written by Moses. This philosopher of Tractatus Theologico-Politicus wrote a work including the section "Of Human Bondage" that is laid out as a series of axioms. For 10 points, name this Dutch Jewish philosopher who wrote Ethics.
This thinker claimed that people cannot imagine life without love because it's impossible to do so in A Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being.
Baruch de Spinoza