List of pantheists

Pantheism is the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God. Pantheists thus do not believe in a distinct personal or anthropomorphic God.

Pantheists

 Vyasa (3rd millennium BCE), writer of Mahabharata.
 Nammalvar (3059 BCE), one of the twelve Alvars.
 Laozi (c. 6th century BCE), name traditionally given to the writer of the Tao Te Ching, and considered the founder of philosophical Taoism.
 Heraclitus (c. 535 BCE–c. 475 BCE), pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general, he was called "The Obscure" and the "Weeping Philosopher".
 Adi Shankara(509–477 BCE) or (788–820 CE) known for consolidating the doctrine of Advaita Vedānta.
 The Stoics are often considered pantheists for their belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is in accord with nature and for arguing that physical conceptions are adequate to explain the entire cosmos.
 Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c. 815–c. 877), Irish theologian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and poet.
 Amalric of Bena (died c. 1204–1207), French theologian, father of medieval pantheism, after whom the Amalricians are named.
 Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. He was burned at the stake for his pantheist views.
 Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), Jewish-Dutch philosopher, has been called the "prophet" and "prince" of pantheism.
 John Toland (1670–1722), An Irish rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books including the Pantheisticon. 
George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).
 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic. His alleged confession of Spinozism led to what is known as the pantheism controversy of the 1780s.
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer, artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, and over 10,000 letters written by him are extant, as are nearly 3,000 drawings.
 Vazha-Pshavela (1861–1915) Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili, noted Georgian patriot and author of the highest calibre in the field of Georgian literature.
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism.
 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quartets. He also composed other chamber music, choral works (including the celebrated Missa Solemnis), and songs. He has been labeled a theist as well.
 Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), German Romantic landscape painter.
 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), German philosopher.
 Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
 Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet. Tennyson praised Bruno and Spinoza on his deathbed, saying of Bruno, "His view of God is in some ways mine". 
 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), American author, poet, philosopher, freemason, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.
 Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, essayist and journalist.
 John Shertzer Hittell (1825-1901), American historian.
 Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian writer, philosophical essayist and pacifist.
 Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899), lawyer, Civil War veteran, political leader, orator, and notable agnostic.
 Felix Klein (1849–1925), German mathematician.
 Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), Serbian American inventor, known for his discovery of AC power and his invention of radio telecommunications among many other electronic inventions. Believed in aether (opposite essentially of gravity) being the source of all existence and energy, sometimes referred to as prana.
 Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), Late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
 Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer.  
 Carl Jung (1875–1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concept of the collective unconscious from a pantheistic worldview.
 Janusz Korczak (1878–1942), Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pediatrician.
 Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German theoretical physicist, one of the most prolific intellects in human history, identified with Spinoza's God and called his own views on God "pantheistic". Einstein held a wavering view on pantheism and at times did not endorse it completely, making the statement in 1930, "I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds." Instead, Einstein also frequently spoke of a more Cosmic Spirituality, a view where religion and science are partnered. Einstein rejected atheism. 
 D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter.
 Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), American poet, known for his work about the central California coast.
 Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988), Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also involved in the development of the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. 
 Ansel Adams (1902–1984), American photographer and environmentalist.
 Alan Watts (1915–1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker.
 Pete Seeger (1919–2014), American folk singer.
 Jose Mujica (1935–), Uruguay president.
 Alan Vega (1938–2016), American vocalist, primarily known for his work with electronic protopunk duo, Suicide.

References

External links
 Pantheist Index
 Pantheist Panorama

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