Abstract:Abstract Spinoza addressed himself to the question: what exists? ‘God’ outlines Spinoza's arguments regarding divine existence and the notion of a divine being. Whereas previous philosophers had taken...Abstract Spinoza addressed himself to the question: what exists? ‘God’ outlines Spinoza's arguments regarding divine existence and the notion of a divine being. Whereas previous philosophers had taken the ontological argument (which proves the existence of something from the conception of that thing) to show that at least one thing (God) exists, Spinoza believed the argument showed that at most one thing exists, and hence that everything which exists is ‘in’ God. What does Spinoza mean by using the word ‘in’? The hidden assumption of Spinoza's philosophy is that reality and conception coincide. It follows from Spinoza's theory that God is not distinct from the world but identical to it.Read More
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-08-29
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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