This man thought that every mode must be conceived through an attribute, where attributes arethe intellect's perception of substances.
This man thought that every mode must be conceived through an attribute, where attributes arethe intellect's perception of substances. He claimed that people have "inadequate ideas" because theyare stuck in their bodies, and opened one work by claiming "A substance is prior in nature to itsaffections" to start off a list of fifteen propositions. This man argued that the (*) Torah was compiledrather than revealed to Moses in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and described passions as "humanbondage." He showed, using a "geometrical method," that the infinite God was one with nature. For 10points, name this lensgrinder who was kicked out of Amsterdam's Jewry for his pantheistic Ethics.
This man thought that every mode must be conceived through an attribute, where attributes arethe intellect's perception of substances.
Baruch Spinoza [or Benedictus de Spinoza]