Sunday, November 16, 2008

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Uriel da Costa and Benedict Spinoza Baruch Spinoza

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Uriel da Costa is the first picture that meets studying Spinoza. It seems that Spinoza child has witnessed the traumatic scene of the flogging of Uriel and it was also forced to trample ritually still bleeding wounds on his back. Returning home, he began to think Spinoza. Uriel da Costa was born in Portugal, Oporto, in 1585 and died in Amsterdam in 1640, when Spinoza was just eight years. After the humiliation suffered Uriel committed suicide with a pistol.


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1. Biographical . - He was born of a rich family of Jewish merchants, have converted to Catholicism. He studied theology at Coimbra, where he also taught. Attracted the barbs of the Inquisition and that was how he decided to move with his family - wife, mother and three brothers - in the Netherlands. Then returned in Judaism, but things did not go much better.

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