Spinozist
- noun
- /ˈspɪnəˌzɪst/
- Specialized
Examples
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At various times, manner has indeed been uppermost, and it would seem to be intimately connected to the notion of an added dimension, as I have associated it with the Spinozist synthesis of nature and thought and their attendant philosophies.
Academic text (2002) -
Indeed, Leibniz could not possibly hold that finite substances depend logically on God, for that would be in effect to deny their status as substances; it would be tantamount to the Spinozist heresy that finite things are modes of the one substance, God.
Academic text (1998) -
Merely technological or would-be scientific definitions of education are not adequate to the intellectually and humanly rich dimensions of education emerging from the perspective I have loosely tied here to the notion of a Spinozist synthesis.
Academic text (2002) -
As a dedicated Spinozist, she often argues that everything in nature is interconnected.
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He considers himself a Spinozist because he believes in the unity of substance as proposed by Spinoza.
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Being a Spinozist means embracing the idea that God and nature are one and the same.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spinozist comes from the name Spinoza, the Dutch philosopher, plus the ending -ist, the same ending in artist or pianist, which means 'a person who follows' or supports a belief. So a Spinozist is a person who follows Spinoza's philosophy.