Word: spinoza
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...much. While outgoing types are inclined to stay in better physical shape, Berkman concluded that their gregariousness, for unknown reasons, has much to do with the fact that they are more resistant to heart and circulatory diseases, cancer and strokes and less inclined to suicide. Which brings to mind Spinoza's observation, "Man is a social animal." And Psychologist James J. Lynch's new book, The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness...
...other centuries, doctors have known that miners, stone cutters and lens grinders (including the philosopher Spinoza) often developed respiratory disease from inhaling large quantities of dust; hatters suffered brain damage and went mad from absorbing toxic vapors from the mercury used in making felt. A London surgeon named Percivall Pott reported in 1775 that the soot-covered sweepers who cleaned Britain's chimneys had a far higher rate of cancer of the scrotum than the rest of the population...
...public domain (a misreported vote actually did spur a 5½-hour walk out by New York firemen in November 1973) Smith refracts this municipal mischief into the conflict of two fire-fighting brothers, Tom and Jerry Ritter. Tom is an introspective family man who wonders what Spinoza and Kant would say about union politics. Jerry swings through Manhattan's East Side, spouting Dylan Thomas and Yeats. Both vote against the strike, but only one sticks by his conscience - and his hose...
...trust in the Bible's reliability and developed their own creeds to reinforce its teachings, their insistence that each individual read the Bible for himself set the stage for the rise of radical new ideas that they would have abhorred. In the 17th century the Dutch Philosopher Baruch ("Benedict") Spinoza, an excommunicated Jew, used a method that would be widely emulated by rationalist critics during the Enlightenment: he treated the Bible as a human rather than divine work and thus subject to investigation of its books according to date, authorship, composition and setting...
...volume "Structure and Growth of Philosophic Systems from Plato to Spinoza" and two-volume "The Philosophy of the Church Fathers" remain definitive works in their respective fields...