Identitätsphilosophien.
/ᵻˌdɛntᵻˈteɪtsfᵻˌlɒsəfi/, U.S. /ᵻˌdɛn(t)əˈteɪtsfəˌlɑsəfi/ Philosophy.
A system that assumes the fundamental identity of spirit and nature; spec. Schelling's metaphysical theory of absolute identity (see identity n. 1a).
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philosophy of nature1695
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Identitätsphilosophie1866
1866 H. Sidgwick in A. Sidgwick & E. M. Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (1906) iii. 151 I am coming more and more to the opinion that the whole ‘Identitäts-philosophie’ (Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel) is a monstrous mistake.
1905 W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) v. 128 Humanism, here, is only a more comminuted identitätsphilosophie.
1938 Mind 47 281 Spinoza's doctrine is not an Identitätsphilosophie; that is to say, the one and only substance has no underlying identical nature, which is only manifested in different ways in the attributes.
1990 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 51 601 Although Schelling is not explicitly mentioned in the famous ‘Preface’ to Hegel's first major work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, it is clear that the Identitätsphilosophie of his former friend, fellow student, and in a sense predecessor, is the target of the ironical remark about the ‘night in which all cows are black’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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