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The Ontological Argument

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Spinoza's Ontological Argument

In spinoza's ethics, he has a kind of reversed version of the ontological argument. So instead of starting with the concept of god and saying that it must exist, spinoza rather, starts with an idea of existence. And then spinoza goes on to say that many of the traditional divine predicates apply to this concept or existence. O substances, eternal, infinite, all powerful, all knowing, because it contains all all thought and all understanding within itself.

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