Spinoza A Complete Guide To Life
Then & Now: Philosophy, History & Politics
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The Importance of Substance in the Creation
Spinoza saw nature as God. In fact, he usually wrote God or nature. They're one and the same thing. He thought of it like this: God is meant to be this infinite, all-powerful, omnipresent, omniscient, law-maker and law-giver. But if that's the case, he can't be outside of nature. If he's not just part of nature, if he's not everywhere at once, he can’t be omnipresent nor infinite. He must, to be those things, be part of everything, with nothing inseparable from him, or her or it. Spinoza was writing at the beginning of the
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