Aristotles God cannot love humans and remains unaware of the sublunary world.

Evidence

God does not have the attributes of a Christian Providence, for it would derogate from His perfection to think about anything except what is perfect, i.e. Himself. ‘It must be of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking’ (1074b). We must infer that God does not know of the existence of our sublunary world. Aristotle, like Spinoza, holds that, while men must love God, it is impossible that God should love men. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 752

Categorization

• XREF: XREF connects to Spinoza’s theology of divine detachment. — connects to: Spinoza posits that God or Nature is the sole substance with infinite attributes. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2091; The Christian God’s vulnerability is what Greek art cannot represent — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 842; Greek gods lack self-knowing inwardness while the Christian God discloses his inner being.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 752

Broader Connections

• Spinoza posits that God or Nature is the sole substance with infinite attributes. #qualifies (0.45) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2091