Deus sive Natura
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Deus sive Natura is Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical conception of God as identical with the single, all-encompassing substance of nature and reality.
Observed surface forms (3)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| God or Nature (Deus sive Natura) | 2 |
| Deus sive Natura (God, that is, Nature) | 1 |
| God or Nature is the one substance | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spinozist concept
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conception of God ⓘ metaphysical doctrine ⓘ pantheistic concept ⓘ philosophical concept ⓘ |
| associatedPhilosopher | Baruch Spinoza ⓘ |
| associatedSchool |
Spinozism
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rationalism ⓘ |
| associatedView |
monism
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pantheism ⓘ |
| attributeClaim |
God has infinitely many attributes
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humans know only thought and extension as attributes of God ⓘ |
| causalRole | God is the immanent cause of all things and not a transient cause ⓘ |
| centralWork | Ethics ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Cartesian dualism
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classical theism ⓘ creation ex nihilo ⓘ personal monotheism ⓘ |
| coreClaim |
God does not transcend the world but is identical with it
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God is identical with Nature ⓘ God is the immanent cause of all things ⓘ everything that exists is a mode of the one substance ⓘ there is only one infinite substance ⓘ |
| epistemicImplication | knowledge of Nature is knowledge of God ⓘ |
| ethicalImplication | intellectual love of God is love of the order of Nature ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Baruch Spinoza ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 17th century philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
German idealism
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surface form:
German Idealism
Romanticism ⓘ modern pantheism ⓘ process theology ⓘ religious naturalism ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| modalClaim | finite things are modes of the divine substance ⓘ |
| notableFormula |
Deus sive Natura
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Deus sive Natura (God, that is, Nature)
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| numberOfSubstances | one ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
immanent causation
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intellectual love of God ⓘ necessitarianism ⓘ substance monism ⓘ |
| relationToCreation | denies a temporal creation of the world by God ⓘ |
| relationToNature | Nature is not created by God but is God ⓘ |
| relationToProvidence | denies anthropomorphic divine providence ⓘ |
| sourceTextSection | Spinoza, Ethics, Part I ⓘ |
| substanceType | infinite substance ⓘ |
| translation | God or Nature ⓘ |
| viewOfGod |
God acts from the necessity of his own nature
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God is not a personal being with will and intellect like humans ⓘ |
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
God or Nature (Deus sive Natura)
subject surface form:
Ethics (Spinoza)
this entity surface form:
God or Nature (Deus sive Natura)
this entity surface form:
God or Nature is the one substance
this entity surface form:
Deus sive Natura (God, that is, Nature)