Acosmism

ACOSMISM. — This name was given (by Hegel) to Spinoza’s philosophical system concerning the nature and origins of the universe, insofar as he denies its existence as something distinct from God. Acosmism was set in opposition to atheism, since the negation of God was replaced by that of the cosmos as an effective reality; but ultimately it is identified with pantheism: in it, God is in fact conceived no longer as a transcendent being, but as the sole universal substance that unfolds according to necessary attributes, resolving the world into itself. Paolo Rossi