Single Idea 4314

[catalogued under 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature]

Full Idea

God, asserts Spinoza, is wholly without passions, and strictly speaking does not love anyone.

Gist of Idea

God is wholly without passions, and strictly speaking does not love anyone

Source

report of Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675]) by John Cottingham - The Rationalists p.179

Book Reference

Cottingham,John: 'The Rationalists' [OUP 1988], p.179


A Reaction

This seems to me a much more plausible conception of God than the anthropomorphic one of him as the perfect parent who dotes on his offspring.