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" "Algunos estoicos, por ejemplo, oyeron casualmente hablar del alma y también de la inmortalidad, cosas que sólo imaginaban confusamente. También imaginaban y percibían por el entendimiento que los cuerpos más sutiles penetran todos los demás y no son penetrados por ninguno.
Imaginando todo eso en conjunto y agregándole la certidumbre del axioma mencionado, estaban seguros desde luego que el espíritu era aquellos cuerpos sutilísimos, que no pueden ser divididos, etc. Igualmente nos libramos de este error mediante el examen de todas nuestras percepciones según la norma de la idea verdadera dada y cuidándonos, como dijimos al comienzo, respecto de las ideas que nos llegan de oídas o por experiencia vaga.
Benedictus de Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a social and metaphysical philosopher known for the elaborate development of his monist philosophy, which has become known as Spinozism. Controversy regarding his ideas led to his excommunication from the Jewish community of his native Amsterdam. He was named Baruch ("blessed" in Hebrew) Spinoza by his synagogue elders and known as Bento de Spinoza or Bento d'Espiñoza, but afterwards used the name Benedictus ("blessed" in Latin) de Spinoza.
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Because of the specific epistemological interests of English philosophy and the dominance of Cartesianism in French thought, Spinoza's philosophical influence was centered in Germany. Of the great German figures Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was the first to come under the spell of Spinoza. He was a man of broad vision, with a hundred cultural interests and a critical disposition of mind, and would not accept any philosophical system in its totality. While he did not accept Spinozism in its entirety, he subscribed to its pantheistic doctrines. But more than he admired Spinoza's philosophy, he was attracted to him by his great earnestness of purpose, his strength of character, and his moral courage.
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