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  2. Jun 29, 2001 · God produces that world by a spontaneous act of free will, and could just as easily have not created anything outside himself. By contrast, Spinozas God is the cause of all things because all things follow causally and necessarily from the divine nature.

  3. Spinoza argued that whatever exists is in God. The divine being is not some distant force, but all around us. Nothing in nature is separate from Him: not people, animals or inanimate objects. Today, the view that God is synonymous with nature is called “pantheism,” and this term is often retrospectively applied to Spinoza.

  4. After stating his proof for God's existence, Spinoza addresses who "God" is. Spinoza believed that God is "the sum of the natural and physical laws of the universe and certainly not an individual entity or creator".

  5. Feb 5, 2024 · One way of looking at pantheism is that it brings us closer to God than conventional religious belief ever could; in the nineteenth century, Romantic writers considered Spinoza a “God ...

  6. Jan 29, 2024 · The main philosophy of Baruch Spinoza is that God and the world are the same thing, made up of the same substance. Humans can find greater happiness by using their reason and by not wasting time in religious activity which God does not hear. Spinoza also called for religious toleration. Was Spinoza an atheist?

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  7. Feb 3, 2009 · 1. Attributes in the Ethics. 1.1 What are Attributes? 1.2 Definition of Attribute. 1.3 Real Distinction. 1.4 The Identification of Attributes with Substance. 1.5 Extension as a Divine Attribute. 1.6 The 2P7 Doctrine. 1.7 The Two Known Attributes. 1.8 Ambiguities and Interpretative Directions. 1.8.1 Subjective Interpretations.

  8. Aug 21, 2007 · Spinozas argument for this conclusion is part of his larger argument for substance monism—the view that only one substance exists, God. Spinozas view about the modal status of modes, his other main ontological category, is far more controversial (2.2).

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