The God of the philosophers
On the axis: Existence of God · God
"God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the learned": is the God whose existence reason demonstrates, prime mover, ground or substance, still the one people pray to, or does proof only ever reach an impersonal principle?
Justification
God exists necessarily, but is not the personal, transcendent God of classical theism: it is the single, infinite substance, identical with Nature (pantheism). Lacking providence or anthropomorphic will, this God is so remote from ordinary theism that Spinoza was charged with atheism; hence an intermediate value on the theist side, affirming a God while flagging its impersonal nature.
Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can be or be conceived without God.Ethics, I, prop. 15
Ethics, I, prop. 11 (God necessarily exists) · Ethics, I, props. 14-15 (single substance)
Justification
Aristotle demonstrates the existence of a , pure actuality and final cause that moves the world as the beloved moves the lover, without being moved. This is a form of theism, but of an impersonal god that does not create, exercises no providence and does not know particulars, hence a value held well back from the extreme.
Thought thinks itself in grasping the intelligible, and its thinking is a thinking of thinking.Metaphysics, XII (Lambda).9 (1074b)
Metaphysics, XII (Lambda).7 and 9 · Physics, VIII.6