Tradition
Acosmism
Overview
Acosmism, held in contrast or equivalent to pantheism, denies the reality of the universe, seeing it as ultimately illusory (the prefix "ἀ-" in Greek meaning negation; like "un-" in English), and only the infinite unmanifest Absolute as real. Conceptual versions of Acosmism are found in eastern and western philosophies.
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For in that system, finite things and the world as a whole are denied all truth. On the other hand, the philosophy which is Acosmism is for that reason certainly pantheistic.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what Acosmism is; the author is tied to Acosmism in the knowledge graph.
For the philosophy stands or falls with the conception of an Absolute. Whether a philosophy of absolutes is theoretically sound or unsound is none of my present concern.
John Dewey, German philosophy and politics
Close in meaning to Acosmism; the term itself is not named.
The hypothesis of self-creation, which practically amounts to what is called Pantheism, is similarly incapable of being represented in thought. Certain phenomena, such as the precipitation of invisible vapour into cloud, aid us in forming a symbolic conception of a self-evolved Universe; and there are not wanting indications in the heavens, and on the earth,…
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
States what Acosmism is.
Philosophers who discussed Acosmism
Related ideas
- Absolute idealism
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hinduism
- Western philosophy
- Wendy Doniger
- Immanuel Kant
- Ancient Greek
- Idealism
- Monism
- Infinity
- Absolute (philosophy)
- Vedanta
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Plato
- Parmenides
- Pantheism
- Mysticism
- Advaita Vedanta
- Universe
- Buddhism
- Baruch Spinoza
- Reality
- British idealism
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- Absolute (philosophy)
- Absolute idealism
- Advaita Vedanta
- Ancient Greek
- Baruch Spinoza
- British idealism
- Buddhism
- Cambridge University Press
- Dualism (Indian philosophy)
- F. H. Bradley
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hinduism
- Illusion
- Infinity
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Oxford English Dictionary
- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
- Walter Terence Stace
- Wendy Doniger
- Salomon Maimon
- Ernst Platner
- Time and Eternity (philosophy book)