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91. - Idealist Readings

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Karolina Hübner  and
Stephen Zylstra
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Like most philosophical labels, ‘idealism’ means different things to different people. Often the term describes metaphysical systems in which reality is somehow thought-dependent. Whether Spinoza is an idealist in this priority-of-thought sense (either intentionally or as a result of the poverty of his philosophical resources) has been a point of contention since the nineteenth century.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 247 - 252
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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