He wrote that Moses did not write the Torah in Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.
This man described human nature in terms of a type of striving called conatus, which is altered by "active joy,' "active desire", and other affects. This man divided knowledge into three increasingly clear categories: experientia vaga, ratio, and scientia intuitive. He inspired the analysis of "multitude" in Hardt and Negri's Empire. The only book this man published under his own name was a critique of Descartes' Principles of Philosophy. This man defined "attribute" as "what the intellect perceives of a substance as constituting its essence" in a list of fifteen propositions starting one book. He wrote that Moses did not write the Torah in Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. For 10 points, name this philosopher whose pantheism, expounded in his Ethics, led to his expulsion from Dutch Jewry.
This man described human nature in terms of a type of striving called conatus, which is altered by "active joy,' "active desire", and other affects.
Baruch Spinoza [or Benedictus de Spinoza]