Baruch Spinoza
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Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin; in Ethics, laid groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe
Supernanny is a Spinozist insofar as, like Spinoza, she takes it for granted that children are in a state of abjection
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