Spinoza's work ('Ethics') was published after his death. He argues that scripture can be interpreted to coincide with 'liberal theology'. He believed that there is no right or wrong. His book tackles metaphysics, psychology of passion and will and the ethics on which these two are based. Spinoza believed in logic; God's specific manifestation as a part of this.
Spinonza says that sin does not exist when viewed as a part of the overall whole. He thought that the human mind had an adequate understanding of God. All 'wrong action', is because of 'intellectual error'. The wise man endeavours to see the world as God sees it. Evil only exists in the parts of the world that consider itself to be self-subsistence. Spinoza objected to the emotions considered to be passions, seeing them as bad, I think that this is because pasionate motion caneasily block out all logical thought.
Spinoza believed that the intellectual love of God can bring joy but that personal survival after death is an 'illusion'.
His model was that facts must be recorded through observation and reason, and life dominated by a single passion is too narrow.
Spinoza lived from 1682 to 1677 and he is known as the most loved philosopher, he lived a good life. He was intellectually passed by others but always had the strongest ethics and morals. He neither fitted into the Jewish or Christian categories, his ideas were centered around God but he was considered to be an atheist. Leibniz even lied about his friendship with Spinoza; it seemed that people didn't want to be associated with him. Spinoza lived the simple life (cleaning lenses) and died at the age of forty-three.
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