Spinoza Panentheism

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Spinoza's thought right to the 18th century was often associated with

atheism, the reason being that those people took him to be saying that
God and nature are the same things, which will imply that they are
identical and hence you can simply drop the word God altogether and
just talk about nature. But we recognize later (actually a later German
philosopher Schelling came up with this recognition, this interpretation)
that Spinoza does not think that way, what Spinoza claims is that all of
nature is in God, because we saw God has infinite attributes, what we
know about his nature is just two of the infinite attributes of God, so
clearly God is more than nature, nature is in God, but God is more than
that. (Panentheism)

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