We live in a world full of conflict and destruction. As humans, we are constantly clashing because of our differences in opinions. The biggest difference that causes these disagreements is religion. We are also constantly consuming the world around us for our individual greed because of our lack of awareness of our connection with the universe. In what follows is an argument about how pantheism could cease all conflict and destruction from ever happening. Pantheism can bring our species unity. Unlike religion, which pits us against each other fighting tooth and nail to defend our own ideologies. It could also help us realize our connection with the external world, and cause us to cease concerning ourselves with the three highest goods. If everyone believed in pantheism, we could potentially and finally have world peace.
First of all, what is pantheism? For this paper we are going to use Baruch Spinoza’s version of pantheism. For Spinoza, God is everything. Put differently, anything that is, is God. Not only does that include everything in nature, but it includes everything that falls under the nature of law, so …show more content…
Our current mind sets have done nothing that have proven to be beneficial to society. Under pantheism we could truly realize that we are all one. There is no individual God who favors you if you follow his words directly. Our pleasures aren’t as important as we make them out to be, because we are just another cog in the universe that is God. If our world was to take hold of pantheism, and bring it into fruition, this world could be a truly better place. We would not be pitting each other against one another by what religion is right. We wouldn’t even be competing against one another by just trying to be a better person either. We would all be equal, and once we realize that we could better our world for generations to come. Under pantheism, we could ultimately have
First of all, what is pantheism? For this paper we are going to use Baruch Spinoza’s version of pantheism. For Spinoza, God is everything. Put differently, anything that is, is God. Not only does that include everything in nature, but it includes everything that falls under the nature of law, so …show more content…
Our current mind sets have done nothing that have proven to be beneficial to society. Under pantheism we could truly realize that we are all one. There is no individual God who favors you if you follow his words directly. Our pleasures aren’t as important as we make them out to be, because we are just another cog in the universe that is God. If our world was to take hold of pantheism, and bring it into fruition, this world could be a truly better place. We would not be pitting each other against one another by what religion is right. We wouldn’t even be competing against one another by just trying to be a better person either. We would all be equal, and once we realize that we could better our world for generations to come. Under pantheism, we could ultimately have