In this episode, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and philosopher Professor Steven Nadler for a thought-provoking discussion of Baruch Spinoza and Nadler’s book, Spinoza: Atheist. They explore Spinoza’s extraordinary life, his excommunication from Amsterdam’s Jewish community and his ground-breaking ideas about religion, science, politics and human freedom. At the heart of the conversation is Spinoza’s controversial conception of God: was he an atheist, a pantheist or something else entirely?
 

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