An academic controversy named for this position began when a philosopher wrote a response to Friedrich Karl Forberg. For 10 points each:
[10m] What philosophical position names a 1790s “dispute” that involved a flurry of pamphlets and eventually resulted in Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s resignation from his post at Jena?
ANSWER: atheism [accept atheists; accept Atheismusstreit or atheism dispute]
[10e] The atheism dispute took place about 20 years after a similar German academic controversy over the purported “pantheism” of this much earlier Jewish thinker who wrote the Ethics.
ANSWER: Baruch Spinoza [or Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict Spinoza, or Benedictus de Spinoza]
[10h] This philosopher, whose dialogue with Gotthold Lessing provoked the pantheism controversy, popularized the term “nihilism” as a central figure in the atheism dispute.
ANSWER: Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
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