Abstract

In his philosophical book called The Ethics, Spinoza has extensively discussed God. In his view, God is a unique substance with infinite attributes. He is self-subsistent and has no cause. He believes that because of His being infinite, there is nothing in the world in which there is no trace of God. Otherwise, His infinity would be challenged. There have been various judgments concerning this idea. After presenting a brief but clear explanation of Spinoza's idea and clarifying the existing views concerning the oneness of being, the purpose of the present paper is to acquit him of the charge of believing in "pantheism" and "the oneness of existent" and attribute to him the belief in a kind of oneness of being which has not yet attained the necessary maturity. This feature is the result of the unidimentionality of Spinoza's rational approach.