ABSTRACT
Baruch Spinoza defines God as an absolutely infinite substance constituted by infinite attributes each of which expresses eternal and infinite essence. Under Extension, motion and rest follow immediately from the infinite attribute, and facies totius universi, the configuration of bodies and the constant interchange of motion and rest among them, directly from motion and rest. Every finite and contingent existence requires a cause which is itself finite and contingent and therefore, in itself, inadequate ground for any existence. The infinite is not composite, not an aggregation of separately independent and separately intelligible parts, which, in consequence would be prior in conception to the whole. For corporeal substance, which cannot be conceived except as infinite, unique and indivisible, they conceive, in order to prove it finite, to be concatenated out of finite parts, and to be multiplex and divisible.
