PHILOS 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: East Los Angeles College, Natura Naturans, Natura Naturata
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Prop 7: existence belongs to the nature of substance. Prop 8: every substance is necessarily infinite- see scholium 2. Prop 10: each attribute must be conceived through itself. Prop 11: god, or substance consisting of infinite attributes, each of which expresses eternal and infinite essence, necessarily exists. Prop 13: absolutely infinite substance is indivisible. Prop 14: there can be, or be conceived, no other substance but god. There is 1 substance, consisting of infinite attributes, each of those attributes being indivisible on its own. Prop 15: everything that is, is within god, and nothing can be without god. Prop 16: introduces the notion of intellect and will. Prop 17: god is a pre-cause; god"s causal action is constrained by none, but acts solely from the laws of his own nature. Neither intellect nor will pertain to the essence of god itself. Perfection of god is understood in terms of human perfection.
