Spinoza's substance monism demonstrates that a self-caused infinite substance can ground existence without functioning as a transcendent creator in any theistically meaningful sense.

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Ground existence(what the substance does): To be the foundation or ultimate explanation for why anything exists at all.
Self-caused: Something that causes itself to change or happen, rather than being acted upon by something external.
Spinoza: Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Dutch philosopher who argued that God and nature are the same thing, and that everything in the universe is interconnected as one unified whole. He believed that understanding how things work through reason and logic—rather than through emotion or superstition—leads to happiness and freedom. His ideas were revolutionary for his time and continue to influence modern philosophy, theology, and how we think about the relationship between mind and body.
Substance monism(Spinoza's core theory): The philosophical view that everything that exists is ultimately made of one single 'stuff' or substance, rather than multiple separate things.
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