The human mind has no free will, but is determined to will this or that by a cause which is also determined by another cause, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.
— Baruch Spinoza Early Modern

Rationalist philosophy

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Ethica, Part II, Proposition 48

Date / Period

1677

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm#link2H_4_0066

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