# Baruch Spinoza — A Pluralistic Universe character guide

> Baruch Spinoza in A Pluralistic Universe by William James.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Spinoza

**First appearance:** 0000-lecture-i-the-types-of-philosophic-thinking

## Who they are

Dutch rationalist philosopher whose monism is discussed.

## In the story

### [Lecture II: Monistic Idealism](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_pluralistic_universe_se/chapters/lecture-ii-monistic-idealism)

Cited as the first great absolutist, with his distinction between God quatenus infinitus and quatenus humanam mentem constituit, illustrating the foreignness of the absolute.

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