Acosmism

Acosmism (from the Greek a ( not ) and cosmos ( world )) ( doctrine of worldlessness ) is a doctrine that denies an autonomous reality of the world.

The term is used in different meanings, usually in the sense that the world is denied an independent reality in relation to the divine reality. Then the acosmism (God without the world) is seen as a conceptual contrast to atheism ( world without God ).

In a second meaning refers to a pure spiritualism that rejects the reality of the outside world, as acosmism, referring to especially Berkeley. It is believed that the Indian Vedanta philosophy represented a acosmism. A acosmism to have represented by some historians, the Eleatic philosophy.

Philosophy History prominent is the qualification of Spinoza's philosophy by Hegel as acosmism: in the interpretation of Hegel according to the teachings of Spinoza only the one infinite and indivisible substance (God) reality.

Spruce struggled in atheism against the accusation of atheism with the fact that he represented no atheism but a acosmism. His philosophy deny " the reality of the temporal and transient ... to insert the the eternal and imperishable in all his dignity " .. His philosophy was not atheism, at most, a acosmism, " he call me about a Akosmisten, he just call me not an atheist: what I deny, lies elsewhere, as he thinks. "

FA Staudenmaier qualified in his criticism of Hegel whose " logical pantheism " as " acosmism ". H. Krings speaks in Hegel from a "progressive acosmism ", in contrast, Spinoza have a " principled acosmism " represented.

A. Franz considers the problem of acosmism " not as complete " when you, the term "world" in philosophy confers a central role with Husserl and Heidegger.