BOSTRÖM, CHRISTOPHER JACOB. - Swedish philosopher, b. at Piteå in 1797, d. at Uppsala, where he was a professor, in 1866. Though following Bibert and Grubbe, he developed his own system, which exercised a great influence on Swedish thought and expresses itself in a form of national idealism.

The universe is conceived as a hierarchy of conscious and personal beings, at whose summit is absolute perfection. God, from whom every idea of space and time is excluded, and whose eternal forms or ideas constitute the ground of finite natures or persons. One therefore remains within pantheism, and creation is denied.

The works of B. (among the principal ones: De pantheismi relate ad religionem habitu dis; De nexu rerum cum Deo) are published in Samla de Shrifter, edited by G. J. Keijser and H. Edfeldt (part 1 and 2, Uppsala 1883; part 3, Stockholm 1901).

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BIBL.: G. Landstroma, B. Och hom Fd., Stockholm 1903; J. Ljunghoffs, C. I. B. Sveriges Platon, Uppsala 1916.

Alberto Scola

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