Free Like Spinoza

Spinoza is the leading and most brilliant exponent of the "radical Enlightenment" identified by historian Jonathan Israël. He was not a solitary thinker, but a man engaged in his own way in a powerful movement aimed at human emancipation. Spinoza heralded "the twilight of servitude." And it is indeed a great beginning.Let there be no mistake. Spinoza''s enlightenment is not just about dispelling t...