... the external world, and about God. In my paper, I will discuss Spinoza's rationalist perception of the knowledge of God. Spinoza had a very different belief of God, unlike the beliefs of philosophers before him. Spinoza believed that God was here on earth. He was everything in nature. He said "God is all, and all is God"(Sophie's World, P249). He didn't believe ... . For example, my car, my desk, my philosophy notes, and even myself are all parts of God. This is where Spinoza separates his views from the cast majority of western philosophers and theologians. They strongly rejected this v...

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