Spinoza, Baruch

In this exordium, however, I will denounce in no uncertain terms the futile, counter-productive and ill-advised proscription of entheogenic drugs by the governments of the United States and other countries. As Baruch Spinoza so presciently put it ... 

One of the first philosophers to systematically explore the philosophical foundations of ethics was Aristotle, famous for his Nicomachean Ethics and many other works. Other philosophers who have contributed greatly to the philosophical foundations of ethics include Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and countless more. 

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