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Spinoza

Belief, reason and scepticism

Steve McCarthy explores the background, ideas and iconoclastic career of Baruch Spinoza, better known today as Benedict de Spinoza

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Spinoza’s ideas are relevant to many areas of current specifications: ‘Nature of the divine’, ‘Freewill and determinism’, ‘Knowledge and faith’ and ‘Nature of sacred texts’. His thinking also relates to ‘Moral and political philosophy’ and he is explicitly mentioned in the reading from Merold Westphal for Edexcel 6RS04/A

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