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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Tad M. Schmaltz
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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In his seminal study of Spinoza, H. A. Wolfson distinguishes between two different interpretations of Spinozistic eternity (aeternitas). On the one hand, there is the “Platonic” interpretation, according to which “eternity is the antithesis of time and it means the exclusion of any kind of temporal relations”; on the other, there is the “Aristotelian interpretation, according to which “eternity is only endless time” (Wolfson ).

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 537 - 540
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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