Spinoza by Devra Lehmann

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/66130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spinoza Author: Devra Lehmann Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: mp3 Length: 6 hrs Release date: 08-15-23 Ratings: 3 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings Genres: Biographies Publisher's Summary: A brilliant schoolboy in 17th-century Amsterdam, Bento Spinoza⏤formally Baruch and later Benedict de Spinoza⏤quickly learns to keep his ideas to himself. When he is 23, those ideas prove so scandalous to his own Jewish community that he is cast out, cursed, and effectively erased from their communal life. The scandal shows no sign of waning as his ideas spread throughout Europe. At the center of the storm, he lives the simplest of lives, quietly devoted to his work as a lens grinder and to his steadfast search for truth, striving to embody a philosophy of tolerance and benevolence.