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Jun 29, 2001 · Spinoza’s metaphysics of God is neatly summed up in a phrase that occurs in the Latin (but not the original Dutch) edition of the Ethics: “God, or Nature”, Deus, sive Natura: “That eternal and infinite being we call God, or Nature, acts from the same necessity from which he exists” (Part IV, Preface).
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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. Whatever the label, the view was—and still is—portrayed as a denial of God’s transcendent power.
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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According to German philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), when Spinoza wrote Deus sive Natura (Latin for 'God or Nature'), Spinoza meant God was natura naturans (nature doing what nature does; literally, 'nature naturing'), not natura naturata (nature already created; literally, 'nature natured').
Jan 10, 2022 · One reason why Spinoza might not care about distinguishing between calling something God’s “idea” and calling it God’s “intellect” (see 1.3) is that, like Hume, he appears to endorse what we today would call the “bundle theory” of mind.
Like many European philosophers in the early modern period, Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) developed a moral philosophy that fused the insights of ancient theories of virtue with a modern conception of humans, their place in nature, and their relationship to God.
