This philosopher claimed that the mind can be filled wholly with joy by loving something eternal and infinite and  argued that because miracles are declared according to the understanding of ignorant masses, they cannot be used to prove God's existence.  
This philosopher claimed that the mind can be filled wholly with joy by loving something eternal and infinite and  argued that because miracles are declared according to the understanding of ignorant masses, they cannot be used to prove God's existence.  This author of On the Improvement of the Understanding discussed how it follows from the nature of a triangle that its three interior angles should not be equal to two right angles and claimed that God is (*) Nature and Nature is God in his most famous work, which refutes Descartes's mind-body dualism and advocates Pantheism. For ten points, name this excommunicated Dutch Jewish philosopher who wrote Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and Ethics.
This philosopher claimed that the mind can be filled wholly with joy by loving something eternal and infinite and  argued that because miracles are declared according to the understanding of ignorant masses, they cannot be used to prove God's existence.  
Baruch Spinoza or Benedict de Spinoza &lt;HX&gt;