Rationalism

Spinoza’s God as Nature: an engineer’s reading of Ethics Part I

René Descartes

French philosopher and mathematician, educated at the Jesuit college of La Flèche, who spent most of his working life in the Dutch Republic. He…

Baruch Spinoza

Dutch philosopher from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community who was expelled from the synagogue in 1656 and earned his living partly as a lens grinder. His…