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Single Idea 17172
[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
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Full Idea
By God, I understand Being absolutely infinite, that is to say, substance consisting of infinite attributes, each one of which expresses eternal and infinite essence.
Gist of Idea
God is a substance with infinite attributes
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], I Def 6)
Book Ref
Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. White,WH/Stirling,AH [Wordsworth 2001], p.3
The
42 ideas
with the same theme
[characteristics of a supreme being]:
3055
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Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman
[Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius]
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461
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God is a pure, solitary, and eternal sphere
[Empedocles]
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466
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God is pure mind permeating the universe
[Empedocles]
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13783
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Even the gods love play
[Plato]
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279
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Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that
[Plato]
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622
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There must a source of movement which is eternal, indivisible and without magnitude
[Aristotle]
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5119
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The source of all movement must be indivisible and have no magnitude
[Aristotle]
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2836
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God is not blessed and happy because of external goods, but because of his own nature
[Aristotle]
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2637
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For Epicureans gods are made of atoms, and are not eternal
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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7815
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Early Stoics called the logos 'god', meaning not a being, but the principle of the universe
[Stoic school]
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23341
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God created humans as spectators and interpreters of God's works
[Epictetus]
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22730
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All men agree that God is blessed, imperishable, happy and good
[Sext.Empiricus]
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22739
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God must suffer to understand suffering
[Sext.Empiricus]
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1891
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How can we agree on the concept of God, unless we agree on his substance or form or place?
[Sext.Empiricus]
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18460
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God is nowhere, and hence everywhere
[Porphyry]
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6811
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Allah is lord of creation, compassionate, merciful, king of judgement-day
[Mohammed]
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20696
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We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes
[Maimonides]
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22123
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The concept of God is the unique first efficient cause, final cause, and most eminent being
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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2269
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God the creator is an intelligent, infinite, powerful substance
[Descartes]
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2289
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Nothing apart from God could have essential existence, and such a being must be unique and eternal
[Descartes]
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7571
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Spinoza's God is not a person
[Spinoza, by Jolley]
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4314
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God is wholly without passions, and strictly speaking does not love anyone
[Spinoza, by Cottingham]
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12928
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Spinoza's God is just power and necessity, without perfection or wisdom
[Leibniz on Spinoza]
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7609
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God is the sum and principle of all eternal laws
[Spinoza, by Armstrong,K]
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17172
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God is a substance with infinite attributes
[Spinoza]
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4823
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God does not act according to the freedom of the will
[Spinoza]
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21859
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God has no purpose, because God lacks nothing
[Spinoza]
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19435
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God is not loveable for producing without choice and by necessity; God is loveable for his goodness
[Leibniz on Spinoza]
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17231
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God feels no emotions, of joy or sorrow
[Spinoza]
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12954
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God's essence is the source of possibilities, and his will the source of existents
[Leibniz]
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19326
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God must be intelligible, to select the actual world from the possibilities
[Leibniz]
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19439
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God produces possibilities, and thus ideas
[Leibniz]
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7666
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God is not a mathematician, but a poet
[Hamann, by Berlin]
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15618
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If God is the abstract of Supremely Real Essence, then God is a mere Beyond, and unknowable
[Hegel]
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15635
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The older conception of God was emptied of human features, to make it worthy of the Infinite
[Hegel]
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21980
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God is the absolute thing, and also the absolute person
[Hegel]
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7586
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God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal
[Kierkegaard]
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13465
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Only God is absolutely infinite
[Cantor, by Hart,WD]
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7192
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Remove goodness and wisdom from our concept of God. Being the highest power is enough!
[Nietzsche]
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18292
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I can only believe in a God who can dance
[Nietzsche]
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22879
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'God' is an imaginative unity of ideal values
[Dewey]
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24220
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As the highest value, God cannot be proved
[Weil]
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