Sub specie aeternitatis

The Latin expression sub specie aeternitatis in German means from the standpoint of eternity. It is mostly used in religious literature in the sense that one should not depend on the transitory this world his thoughts and actions, but on the eternal values , which are equated with God and the afterlife and all time Enthobenen.

The term was coined by Spinoza in his written in Latin major philosophical work Ethica more geometrico demonstrata Part 5, theorem 29 ff ( 1677 posthumously ). Spinoza uses the term to characterize the views of the philosophers. The philosophical mind see things not in their deceptive diverse phenomena, but as the one and only infinite and eternal substance, which he calls "God or Nature " ( deus sive natura ). Since species also means shape, you could also free the expression translated as in the form of the eternal substance.