PHIL 2028 Study Guide - Xenophanes, Baruch Spinoza
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What the theists have to say is that: god comes about and relates perfectly to the world i. e. in the way only a being who is that than which no greater can be thought could do (divine care modeled on healthiest relationships we could think of; happy because the other is happy, we do not know how that works as an action in god, what we do know is that it cannot be a caring that makes god more or less. What farrer has to say: retreat from an absolutism that denies divine relatedness, divine love and care, divine affection by the world, but pantheism goes too far in its, finitizing of god and, explanation of god"s dependence on the world, in effect, panentheism makes god less than that than which no greater can be conceived, it does this by:
