Uriel da Costa (about 1585 to 1640) was a Portuguese Sephardi philosopher, born Gabriel Fiuza da Costa in Porto to a family of New Christians, Jews forced to convert to Catholicism. After reading the Hebrew Bible he left Portugal for Hamburg and Amsterdam and returned to Judaism, but came to reject rabbinic tradition, arguing from reason and scripture. His Examination of Pharisaic Traditions (1623) denied that the Torah teaches the immortality of the soul. He was excommunicated, his book was burned, and after a reconciliation he was excommunicated again. His autobiographical Exemplar Humanae Vitae treats religion as a human invention and sketches a religion based on natural law. He died by suicide in Amsterdam in 1640, and later thinkers saw him as a precursor of Spinoza.
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c. 1585, April 1640) was a Portuguese Sephardi philosopher who was born a New Christian but returned to Judaism
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was a Portuguese Sephardi philosopher who was born a New Christian but returned to Judaism
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continued his international business
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was a Portuguese Sephardi philosopher
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Da Costa was born Gabriel Fiuza da Costa in Porto.
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Da Costa suggests that all religion is a human invention, and specifically rejects formalized, ritualized religion.
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it also expresses rationalistic and sceptical views
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was a Portuguese Sephardi philosopher who was born a New Christian but returned to Judaism
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was a Portuguese Sephardi philosopher who was born a New Christian but returned to Judaism
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