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'The Fixation of Belief', 'The Ethics' and 'On 'Generation and Corruption''
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 1. God
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The key question for Spinoza is: is his God really a God? [Stewart,M on Spinoza]
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
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God is the sum and principle of all eternal laws [Spinoza, by Armstrong,K]
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Spinoza's God is not a person [Spinoza, by Jolley]
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God is a substance with infinite attributes [Spinoza]
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God does not act according to the freedom of the will [Spinoza]
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God has no purpose, because God lacks nothing [Spinoza]
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God is wholly without passions, and strictly speaking does not love anyone [Spinoza, by Cottingham]
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Spinoza's God is just power and necessity, without perfection or wisdom [Leibniz on Spinoza]
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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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God feels no emotions, of joy or sorrow [Spinoza]
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / c. God is the good
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To say that God promotes what is good is false, as it sets up a goal beyond God [Spinoza]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
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Spinoza says a substance of infinite attributes cannot fail to exist [Spinoza, by Lord]
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Denial of God is denial that his essence involves existence, which is absurd [Spinoza]
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God is being as such, and you cannot conceive of the non-existence of being [Spinoza, by Lord]
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God must necessarily exist, because no reason can be given for his non-existence [Spinoza]
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Some things makes me conceive of it as a thing whose essence requires its existence [Spinoza]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
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If a thing can be conceived as non-existing, its essence does not involve existence [Spinoza]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / d. Pascal's Wager
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If death is annihilation, belief in heaven is a cheap pleasure with no disappointment [Peirce]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles
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Priests reject as heretics anyone who tries to understand miracles in a natural way [Spinoza]
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 2. Pantheism
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Everything is in God, and nothing exists or is thinkable without God [Spinoza]
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God is the efficient cause of essences, as well as of existences [Spinoza]
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That God is the substance of all things is an ill-reputed doctrine [Leibniz on Spinoza]
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The human mind is part of the infinite intellect of God [Spinoza]
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
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In Spinoza, one could substitute 'nature' or 'substance' for the word 'God' throughout [Spinoza, by Stewart,M]
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