Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Baruch de Spinoza and Jonathan Swift

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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

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Some things makes me conceive of it as a thing whose essence requires its existence [Spinoza]

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Spinoza says a substance of infinite attributes cannot fail to exist [Spinoza, by Lord]

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Denial of God is denial that his essence involves existence, which is absurd [Spinoza]

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God is being as such, and you cannot conceive of the non-existence of being [Spinoza, by Lord]

4820	God must necessarily exist, because no reason can be given for his non-existence [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique

4817	If a thing can be conceived as non-existing, its essence does not involve existence [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]

4827	Priests reject as heretics anyone who tries to understand miracles in a natural way [Spinoza]