Key Arguments

• Whatever exists expresses God's nature or essence in a conditioned manner (Prop. XXV, Coroll.).
• By Prop. XXXIV, whatever exists expresses God's power, which is the cause of all things; hence from any cause, some effect follows.

Source Quotes

Proof.—Whatsoever is in God's power, must (by the last Prop.) be comprehended in his essence in such a manner, that it necessarily follows therefrom, and therefore necessarily exists. Q.E.D. PROP. XXXVI. There is no cause from whose nature some effect does not follow. Proof.—Whatsoever exists expresses God's nature or essence in a given conditioned manner (by Prop. xxv.,

There is no cause from whose nature some effect does not follow. Proof.—Whatsoever exists expresses God's nature or essence in a given conditioned manner (by Prop. xxv., Coroll.); that is, (by Prop. xxxiv.), whatsoever exists, expresses in a given conditioned manner God's power, which is the cause of all things, therefore an

Key Concepts

• PROP. XXXVI. There is no cause from whose nature some effect does not follow.
• Whatsoever exists expresses God's nature or essence in a given conditioned manner (by Prop. xxv., Coroll.); that is, (by Prop. xxxiv.), whatsoever exists, expresses in a given conditioned manner God's power, which is the cause of all things

Context

Ethics I, PROPOSITIONS, lines 569–604; Prop. XXXVI and the opening of its proof