About Spinoza's Latin

1. Did Spinoza write in Latin?
2. What is Spinoza best known for?
3. What is the summary of Spinoza?
4. What is Spinoza's idea of God?

Did Spinoza write in Latin?

Although he wrote in Latin, Spinoza learned the language only later in his youth, his primary language was Portuguese, although he also knew Hebrew and Dutch.

What is Spinoza best known for?

Among philosophers, Spinoza is best known for his Ethics, a monumental work that presents an ethical vision unfolding out of a monistic metaphysics in which God and Nature are identified.

What is the summary of Spinoza?

Spinoza concludes that everything that exists is a part of God. In his terminology, what the Aristotelians take to be separate substances actually exist as modes of God. They all, in fact, rely on God, but they can do so in different ways. Some modes are “infinite modes.” These include things like the laws of nature.

What is Spinoza's idea of God?

As understood by Spinoza, God is the one infinite substance who possesses an infinite number of attributes each expressing an eternal aspect of his/her nature. He believes this is so due to the definition of God being equivalent to that of substance, or that which causes itself.