Baruch Spinoza is of course the philosopher behind Spinoza’s God.
Five hundred years ago Spinoza published his philosophy. So ‘ thinking outside the box ‘ has been around at least since the early modern period. When it comes to modern philosophy Bento is ahead of his time considering he died way back in 1677.
Credit: Nadler, Steven, “Baruch Spinoza”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/spinoza/>