Spinoza's Deus and the Neoplatonic One remain metaphysically disputed frameworks themselves, so grounding the argument's conclusion in them transfers rather than resolves burden of proof.

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Deus(as Spinoza's term for the divine nature of reality): Latin word for 'God'; in philosophy, it refers to the concept of God or a divine being.
Metaphysically(describing how harm might actually affect reality at its deepest level): In terms of the ultimate nature of reality itself, rather than just how things appear to us.
Neoplatonic One(another example of an impersonal ultimate principle): An ancient philosophical concept of the ultimate source of everything—a perfect, indescribable unity from which all of reality flows, without being conscious or having a will like a person.
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.

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