He found Spinoza when he started to realize the repercussions of his ambitions as a physicist.

FORBES: A Review of Emanuel Derman's New Book: Models.Behaving.Badly.

Derman rests much of his current world view on the writings of philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Baruch Spinoza.

FORBES: A Review of Emanuel Derman's New Book: Models.Behaving.Badly.

Foremost is Ariel Chipman, a philosophy professor who has dedicated his life to Spinoza and the theory of the supremacy of happiness.

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" In another chapter, titled "The Absolute, " he outlines Spinoza's "Theory of Emotions" a description of the nature of emotions that did for man's inner life, Mr. Derman says, "what Euclid did for geometry.

WSJ: Book Review: Models Behaving Badly

Maslow helped a bit by giving a list of people he felt had reached self-actualisation: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, William James, Albert Schweitzer, Benedict Spinoza and Aldous Huxley, as well as 12 unnamed people alive at the time Maslow did his research.

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