"Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men's way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself."

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Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardic Jewish origin and a major figure in early modern rationalism. His works in metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy were highly influential in European intellectual history.

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