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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Dose the world vanish in God's unity?

“God is a thinking being; but the objects that he thinks and comprehends are, like his mind, not distinguished form his being. Thus, in thinking the objects, he thinks only himself, namely, he remains in an unbroken unity with himself.”

In this passage Feuerbach expresses the idea that God thinking is not thinking of objects which are outside of God. Unlike human beings who’s thought is only possible when there are objects outside of the self (subject), with Gods thought there is no distinction between subject (God) and object . God thinking of objects is thinking of objects as they are God. But how can this idea be sated as a coherent thought, it seams that this idea can lead to the world being God. According to this passage, God can only think of himself but not of anything outside of God. Now suppose God thinks of the world it seams the only way this is possible is if the world is God himself (nature or God).

Furthermore, in this passage it is implied that God is essentially thought, reason or intellect. But if God is viewed as the intellect this can be a problem for the notion of the unity of God. The concepts of intellect and understanding can only bed applied to an object which can be broken and divided in to components. We do not understand objects as holistic beings, rather, we analyze and comprehend parts and components of objects. If God is thought or intellect then there would be the possibility of braking apart and dividing God in to components. This would be an absurdity and a contradiction to the unity of God.

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