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In this investigation the question of the divine revelation of dogma and ceremonial laws is neither supra-rationalistically affirmed nor naturalistically derived, but rationalistically treated as an open question. The individual evil deeds of the empirical character point to an original fault of the intelligible character, a propensity to evil dwelling in man and not further deducible.
Thus the dislocation of concepts, which is perceptible in Spinoza's ethics, repeats itself in his politics. In a similar way "Spinoza conceives the starting point of the state naturalistically, its culmination idealistically." Cf.
If by deity we mean not man's ideal intellectual or sensuous but the total cosmic order, then the universal hierarchy may be understood naturalistically so that each sphere gives scope for one sort of good. God, or the highest being, would then be simply the life of nature as a whole, if nature has a conscious life, or that of its noblest portion.
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