But then who rules universe?

>>9996609
monarchist detected

Spinoza isn't really a pantheist in its contemporary sense, he clearly sees a distinction between God and everyday material things. God contains the material and mental universe, but also reaches beyond it into aspects incomprehensible to human beings. Panentheism, rather than pantheism.

>>9996619
What can I read that deals with contemporary pantheism? So far as I can deduce, it's basically materialism and atheism with a productive and happy mentality to go along with them.

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>>9996711
Keep it ;) It's all yours, my friend

>>9996609
>But then who rules universe?
This questions makes no sense in Spinoza's philosophy.

>>9996619
At no point in his Ethics Spinoza makes a distinction between God and substance.

>distinction between God and everyday material things
False, modes and attributes are inherently part of God.

>>9996711

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_views_of_Albert_Einstein

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>>9996724
oh, uh

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>>9996757
thanks, im going to read: pantheism: a non-theistic concept of deity, that wiki article, stanford encyclopedia of philosophy's article on panthesim and spinoza's ethics.

I think that should be sufficient.

>>9996618
Take the monarchist pill.