Spinozism The term Spinozism has almost invariably been used, by both defenders and detractors, to refer to doctrines held or allegedly held by Benedict de Spinoza. Unlike "Platonism," for example, it has not generally been used to refer...

Spinozism is the pantheistic philosophical system of Baruch Spinoza, a.k.a. Benedict de Spinoza, which defines "God" as a singular self-subsistent substance, and both matter and thought as attributes of such. Spinoza claimed that the third kind of...