St. Anselm's approach was to define God as, "that than which nothing greater can be conceived". Famed pantheist philosopher Baruch Spinoza would later carry this idea to its extreme: "By God I understand a being absolutely infinite, i.e., a substance consisting of infinite attributes, of which each one expresses an eternal and infinite essence." For Spinoza, the whole of the natural universe is made of one substance, God, or its equivalent, Nature. His proof for the existence of God was a variation of the Ontological argument. COUNT 8
QSN1 How did St. Anselm define the existence of God? ANS1 "that than which nothing greater can be conceived" QSN2 Who said that God is "a substance consisting of infinite attributes"? ANS2 Baruch Spinoza QSN3 What did Baruch Spinoza use as proof for the existence of God? ANS3 a variation of the Ontological argument QSN4 What did Spinoza believe the world was made of? ANS4 one substance, God, or its equivalent, Nature QSN5 Who defined god as "that than which nothing greater can be conceived"? ANS5 St. Anselm QSN6 Name a famous pantheist? ANS6 Baruch Spinoza QSN7 What was Spinoza's concept of God? ANS7 infinite QSN8 Spinoza believed that the universe was made up of one substance which is? ANS8 God