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Single Idea 22036

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy ]

Full Idea

In Hegel's time the shorthand for the Naturalistic worldview was 'Spinozism'.

Gist of Idea

In Hegel's time naturalism was called 'Spinozism'

Source

Terry Pinkard (German Philosophy 1760-1860 [2002], 10)

Book Ref

Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.258

A Reaction

Spinozism hit Germany like a bomb in 1786, when it was reported that the poet Hölderlin was a fan of Spinoza.

The 7 ideas with the same theme [overview of philosophy from 1801 to 1878]:

20109 Hegel inserted society and history between the God-world, man-nature, man-being binary pairs [Hegel, by Safranski]
8215 Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book [Hegel, by Derrida]
20255 Early 19th century German philosophers enjoyed concepts, rather than scientific explanations [Nietzsche]
20260 Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic [Nietzsche]
22036 In Hegel's time naturalism was called 'Spinozism' [Pinkard]
20110 Hegel, Fichte and Schelling wanted to know Kant's thing-in-itself, as ego, or nature, or spirit [Safranski]
21943 Since Kant, self-criticism has been part of philosophy [Gutting]