Baruch Spinoza (/bəˈruːk spɪˈnoʊzə/;Dutch: [baːˈrux spɪˈnoːzaː]; born Benedito de Espinosa, Portuguese pronunciation: [benɨˈðitu ðɨ iʃpɨˈnozɐ]; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677, later Benedict de Spinoza) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin. The breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until many years after his death. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy.
Spinoza's magnum opus, the posthumous Ethics, in which he opposed Descartes' mind–body dualism, has earned him recognition as one of Western philosophy's most important thinkers. In the Ethics, "Spinoza wrote the last indisputable Latin masterpiece, and one in which the refined conceptions of medieval philosophy are finally turned against themselves and destroyed entirely."Hegel said, "You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all." His philosophical accomplishments and moral character prompted 20th-century philosopher Gilles Deleuze to name him "the 'prince' of philosophers".
This is the 'lectric
Lounge
No one's afraid to laugh
So c'mon, man,
Let me break your back
Talk 'bout the Metalin
And what's on tap,
What else you come here
What else could this be
about?
For me it's just
Waiting for the kid to come
Waiting for the kid to come
And I'm finding out what this
is about, yeah
Waiting for the kid to come
Let it be
Seventeen years
And the tradition, your dash
lost track
Everything comes back out (but you
can't hold back)
And this is like being alive (but
Falls right out of your mouth, yeah
(but you can't hold back)
Here at the 'lectric
Lounge
(outside between the
bands)
No one's afraid to laugh
And you get just what you come
to expect
You can stick a lot up your ass
cause for me it's just
Waiting for the kid to come
Waiting for the kid to come
And I'm finding out what this
is about
And I'm waiting for the kid to
come out