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Tractatus de intellectus emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect)
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[1] After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile, and I saw that all the things which were the cause or object of my fear had nothing…

Contributor:

Baruch Spinoza

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

ca. 1662

Subjects:

Philosophy, Ethics, Life cycle, Conceptualism, Economic life

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Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Science & Philosophy
Letter to Alfred Michaux
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Dear Sir, You ask me to write extensively about my life. As far as I can, I will gladly do so, but, unfortunately, I won’t be able to do all that much. Here are the reasons: maybe for future…

Contributor:

Ludwik Zamenhof

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Interfaith relations, Zionism, Jewish languages

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Letters, (Auto)biography