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Baruch (Bento, Benedictus) Spinoza (1632 - 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.

Spinoza has earned recognition as one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy mainly due to his Ethics in which he opposed Descartes' mind–body dualism.
For Spinoza, individual things are simply clusters of qualities within regions of space.

Just as a blush is merely a confluence of properties on a region of a face, the person is a confluence of properties “on a region” of substance. So, we are temporary, since we are just modes of the one and only substance.
According to Descartes, the term “substance” is used in reference to both God and created substance.

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Spinoza, however, denies that divine and created substances are different substances. For instance, finite minds are not themselves substances, but rather modes of thinking substance. Spinoza agrees with Des