PHIL 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Immanence, Snapple, Peace And Conflict Studies
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The hypothesis of a divine legislation leads to the denial of nature. If harmony and agreement with the law reigns in the universe, it is not because it is ruled by a preconceived system ordered beforehand by the supreme will. The theological hypothesis of a divine legislation leads to an absurd manifesto and to the negation not only of any order, but also of nature itself. Laws are real only when they are inseparable from things themselves; that is, when they are not ordered by a strange power. These laws are simple continuous manifestations or variations of things and combinations of diverse transient but real facts. It works unconsciously, and presents an infinite variety of phenomena that inevitably manifest and repeat themselves. Only because of this inevitability of action can there be and is there an order in the universe. The unity of the physical and social world.
