Saturday, November 6, 2010

Spinoza, God, Logos

For Spinoza, the object of Intuition is a relation, independent of the terms that it relates, either Causation or Inference. But, Causation is an expression of God's power of Extension, and Inference is an expression of God's power of Thought, i. e. God's two attributes are dynamic processes, not static properties. Hence, God, in one respect or the other, is the object of Intuition, i. e. of Spinoza's 'third kind of Knowledge'. Furthermore, as a rational creative force, God is identical to not only Nature, but, even though Spinoza never formulates it as such, to the Logos, in the Heraclitan or Stoic sense, as well. In other words, in Spinoza's Pantheism, the Logos is God, not merely one of God's properties, powers, or manners of expression, as other traditions have it.

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