ISLAMABAD: For Pakistani society, which is suffering from regular, violent episodes of religious intolerance, there might be lessons to learn from 17th century philosophy. The School of Modern History ...

The beguiling Dutch philosopher’s life and work is prone to misunderstandings and misreadings. A recent biography goes so far as to recruit him into the culture war. Ad Policy A portrait of Benedict ...

COLUMBIA — What does Baruch Spinoza — arguably the most radical thinker of the 17th century — have to do with society and Jewish identity today? That's the question Dr. Steven Nadler of the University ...

This means she will be presenting the annual Spinoza lecture at Spinoza House in Rijnsburg, where the benches on which Spinoza worked in the seventeenth century at his trade grinding optical lenses ...

Baruch Spinoza, one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. Unknown artist via Wikimedia Commons The recent “no-platforming” of social historian Selina Todd and former Conservative MP ...