Steven Nadler gives us much information about Spinoza’s philosophy; however more clarity is needed. As a private teacher and student of Spinoza’s Ethics, I understand that free will is an illusion and that the laws of necessity and self-preservation govern and direct all of existence. Also, intuition is required to understand his Ethics, reason alone will not help you. His philosophy is to be lived and understood; otherwise, it becomes abstract and only entertaining.

Using my new word. Spinoza's attitude toward nature, as is the attitude of a theist's attitude toward God, is that it is has aseity.

God is the universe we all take part, it's the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, it's infinite and ever existed. The present moment is all there is, the now. Life is God and is wholly, only our minds recall the past through memory stored in the brain and dream of the future, but it doesn't exist. Only the now is real. God is all the particles of the universe collectively, our bodies are also part of it. To those who destroy the Earth knows he destroy himself. The truthcontest thepresent

If everything is Nature, then Does Spinoza ever ask where this Nature comes from? Self-Caused? Can Matter be self-caused? Or Only a superstitious person would ask such a question?

Steven Nadler gives us much information about Spinoza’s philosophy; however more clarity is needed. As a private teacher and student of Spinoza’s Ethics, I understand that free will is an illusion and that the laws of necessity and self-preservation govern and direct all of existence. Also, intuition is required to understand his Ethics, reason alone will not help you. His philosophy is to be lived and understood; otherwise, it becomes abstract and only entertaining.