For 10 points, name this author of "Tractactus Theologico-Politicus" and "Ethics," a Jewish Dutch thinker.
This man's posthumous works include "On the Rainbow", "On the Calculation of Chances", and "On the Emandation of the Intellect." He discussed man's lack of power to moderate and restrain his passions, which he labeled (*) "human bondage." Another of this man's works was written to promote the views of Jan de Witt and argued that election by God was not a basis for superiority, and was condemned at the Synod of Dort, in part because it claimed that Ezra was the true author of the Old Testament. Another of his works articulated the idea that "God is Nature." For 10 points, name this author of "Tractactus Theologico-Politicus" and "Ethics," a Jewish Dutch thinker.
This man's posthumous works include "On the Rainbow", "On the Calculation of Chances", and "On the Emandation of the Intellect."
Baruch {Spinoza}