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A Spinozistic Vision of God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John Leslie
John Leslie
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Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario, CanadaN1G 2W1
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Philosophers of today are easy to stupefy. Try suggesting that some situations, such as enjoying a chess problem, really are in themselves better than others such as being burned alive: in themselves better in the sense that situations of the first sort would be preferable to those of the second if they existed all alone, so that one did not need to take consequences into account, and really better much as Africa is really bigger than Iceland, so that talk of real betterness is not just a genuine, wholehearted act of prescribing, or an expression of personal taste like the remark that mustard really is nasty. You will stupefy many a philosopher.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1993 , pp. 277 - 285
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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