Baruch Spinoza Concerning God
Baruch Spinoza was a famous philosopher whose most famous work is ethics. In ethics Spinoza tries to reinvent religion. Part one tries to teach his philosophical notion of God, and how God is everything. Spinoza does his teachings through definitions, explanations, proposals, proofs, and truths. He ties all these together in a mathematical sense; however, Spinoza’s notion of God is complete nonsense. He contradicts himself, two propositions can be debunked, and his God is simply a redefined general term.
How Infinite is God?
According the definition six, Spinoza asserts that “By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite, that is to say, a substance consisting of infinite attributes, each of which expresses eternal and infinite essence” (Cahn,2012,595). Spinoza here tells us that God is everything. His first fourteen propositions purpose, is to prove definition six above, Proposition fourteen says “There can be, or be conceived, no other substance but God” (Cahn,2012,599). If proposition fourteen is true saying God is the only substance, then definition six is contradicted since God is supposed to be a “substance containing infinite attributes”. Spinoza’s reasoning is very indirect and in my opinion flawed.
Existence
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According to proposition thirty-three “Things could not have been produced by God in any other order than is the case” (Cahn,2012,608). The problem many people have with the notion of all Gods, not Just Spinoza’s version is that they do not interfere with human life. If what a God that is believed to be a deity cannot interfere how could possibly a God that is the idea of everything. If Spinoza’s God is not even a deity and cannot change the outcome of events, how could Proposition thirty-three be true since his sense of God would not have power to affect the
Baruch Spinoza was a famous philosopher whose most famous work is ethics. In ethics Spinoza tries to reinvent religion. Part one tries to teach his philosophical notion of God, and how God is everything. Spinoza does his teachings through definitions, explanations, proposals, proofs, and truths. He ties all these together in a mathematical sense; however, Spinoza’s notion of God is complete nonsense. He contradicts himself, two propositions can be debunked, and his God is simply a redefined general term.
How Infinite is God?
According the definition six, Spinoza asserts that “By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite, that is to say, a substance consisting of infinite attributes, each of which expresses eternal and infinite essence” (Cahn,2012,595). Spinoza here tells us that God is everything. His first fourteen propositions purpose, is to prove definition six above, Proposition fourteen says “There can be, or be conceived, no other substance but God” (Cahn,2012,599). If proposition fourteen is true saying God is the only substance, then definition six is contradicted since God is supposed to be a “substance containing infinite attributes”. Spinoza’s reasoning is very indirect and in my opinion flawed.
Existence
According to Spinoza’s …show more content…
According to proposition thirty-three “Things could not have been produced by God in any other order than is the case” (Cahn,2012,608). The problem many people have with the notion of all Gods, not Just Spinoza’s version is that they do not interfere with human life. If what a God that is believed to be a deity cannot interfere how could possibly a God that is the idea of everything. If Spinoza’s God is not even a deity and cannot change the outcome of events, how could Proposition thirty-three be true since his sense of God would not have power to affect the