The paradox of Buridan’s donkey was a hypothetical example used by Jean Buridan (1300-1358) to debate that humanity is not free. For him, a completely rational donkey placed between two equal stacks of hay, would starve to death because it cannot make any reasonable decision of which bale of hay it will begin to eat first. In other words, there is no free will, we are dominated by another powerful authority beyond us. According to Spinoza, who strongly agreed with Buridan, people are like the donkey when they do not have some internal and external influence upon them. This means that, people would starve to death because their free will is not enough for them to produce an action. He also says that the effect is the result of an antecedent