Philosophy and Metaphysics
The Phenomenology of God
On the Nature of God and Being as Indistinguishable
“The supposition of some, that I endeavor to prove in the Tractatus Theologico–Politicus the unity of God and Nature (meaning by the latter a certain mass or corporeal matter) is wholly erroneous.”
The Philosophical Foundations of Metaphysical Unity
Defining the world –asking in the most general manner, “What is?” — makes human beings distinctive as a finite species of organisms –as far as we know, within the confines of our answers to that most general question.
Each of us asks and answers this question, but in particular, at each moment of living, and it is only by abstracting from everyday living that the general questioning is brought into the frame. To ask “what is?” with the broadest applicability is to ask the question of ‘Being.’
All that is –the absolute, the infinite, the eternal — in synthesis, in unity, is indistinct from the notion of Being or Being-itself. There cannot be another sphere of phenomenology where the word “God” finds more appropriateness than in this synthesis –the original philosophic intuition that “all…
