Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher, is one of the most important philosophers of the 17th century, and today his birthday passes, as he was born on this day February 24 of 1632, and left our world in February of 1677 AD.
Spinoza had a special philosophy in achieving happiness, as he sees that achieving that end did not lie in the pursuit of wealth, fame and pleasure, as he considers that these three goals are not the true goal of a person who is transcending happiness, because in the end it is only just means and not real goals to achieve happiness.
Spinoza believes that reaching happiness must be that the means connected to happiness, virtue and a decent life must be consistent with these same goals, and finds that the only means that connects a person to happiness, virtue and a decent life is the enlightened mind and right thinking, so a person must organize his life and behavior in a more way Rightly because it is the only way to achieve happiness.
He explains that the human mind must be directed to the human being towards achieving the goals that ultimately lead to achieving the goal and reaching the required happiness, because rationality is the goal of human life and it is also a means of this goal, and for that, Baruch seemed to try to reform the mind, that is, an attempt to explain how to refine Man of his mental life.
He also had another point of view, which is that the mind is not a servant of theology – and for every special field that differs from the field of the other. As he states that the purpose of philosophy is the right alone or the truth, and the goal of faith is obedience and piety, according to what was stated in his book “A Message in theology and Politics” that faith and philosophy are separate.
And he says in the book: The foundations on which philosophy is based is common ideas, that is, the general principles that govern things, or the established laws of nature, and these we draw from our study of nature alone, while faith is based on the Holy Books and the delivery of the reality of revelation, and because the field of philosophy differs from the field of faith, then Philosophy does not harm faith and does not pose a danger to it..
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