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How could a man who was expelled from the neighborhood where he spent his childhood and ostracized from the community he lived in change the world with his ideas? How could he find answers to philosophical problems that had been sought for centuries? Or how much trouble could he cause to emperors and kings who were perhaps unaware of his existence? If we were to look at the life of Spinoza, who was in his mid-40s and struggling with his lungs in terrible condition, we might not be able to give a full answer to this question. And until his entire works were published a few years after his death, people would have little idea of what Spinoza did. So who was this man, really? Let's take a look at the life story of Baruch Spinoza...