Published November 24, 2025 | Version v1

Immanence and Infinity in Spinoza's Concept of God as a Manifestation of the Limits of Reason in His Philosophy.

  • 1. ROR icon Zefat Academic College

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This article examines the lacuna arising from Spinoza’srationalism with respect to God as immanent within infinity. Reliance on ahuman intellect derived from the regularity of God (sive natura) necessarilyproduces a limitation projected on God, defined as possessing infiniteattributes of which we are familiar with a mere two. In doing so, we present alook at the perspective of contemporary studies that relate to the concept ofinfinity and its problematic nature that arises from the limitations of ourminds (For example, Godel', Russell). The article suggests four perspectivesthat may question the human rationale grounding Spinoza’s metaphysicalthought.

Defining infinity necessitates an immanent God, thus expropriating his capacity for transcendence. Accordingly, a method which employs the concept of an infinite God is necessarily subject to a definition by negation contradicting God’s capacity for transcendence.

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