Thursday, May 30, 2019

Substance and Synergy

The concept of an immanent deity eradicates the chasm between not only God and Nature, but also between Nature and the Human world.  Thus, the intelligent creating of a device by a watchmaker is not analogous to the intelligent creating of an organism by a deity, it is an extension of the latter.  Conversely, Human co-creativity, whether procreation, artistic collaboration, or the history of the species, expresses the divine Synergy of such a deity.  But, because Spinoza does not consider the possibility of Modal immanent co-creativity, even in his Political Philosophy, he does not consider that Synergy might be an attribute of Substance, or even the fundamental principle of Substance, from which Thought and Extension are analyzed out.

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