 Maimon also seems to have played an important role in the reception of Spinoza in German Idealism. Maimon was not only the first to try to create a synthesis between Kantian idealism and Spinozistic pantheism (GW III 455), but he was also apparently the first to suggest that Spinoza’s philosophy was not atheistic, but rather a strong though unorthodox religious view. Instead of characterizing Spinoza’s philosophy as atheism, a view which denies Gods existence, Maimon argues that it should rather be called acosmism, insofar as it denies the reality of the diverse world and affirms the sole reality of God. This characterization of Spinoza was later adopted by Hegel (See Hegel’s Encyclopedia Logic, sections 50 and 151, and his discussion of Spinoza in the Lectures on the History of Philosophy) and seems to play a central role in Hegel’s perception of Spinoza.