During the early twentieth century, British novelist and philosopher May Sinclair published two book-length defenses of idealism. Although Sinclair is well known to literary scholars, she is little known to the history of philosophy. This paper provides the first substantial scholarship on Sinclair's philosophical views, focusing on her mature idealism. Although Sinclair is working within the larger British idealist tradition, her argument for Absolute idealism is unique, founded on Samuel Alexander's new realist beliefs about the reality of time. Her metaphysics takes idealism and pantheism in new directions and provides fresh insight into 1920s debates between British idealisms and realisms.

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梅·辛克莱的理想主义和泛神论

在 20 世纪初，英国小说家和哲学家梅·辛克莱（May Sinclair）出版了两本专为唯心主义辩护的书。辛克莱虽然为文学学者所熟知，但在哲学史上却鲜为人知。本文提供了第一个关于辛克莱哲学观点的实质性学术研究，重点关注她成熟的理想主义。尽管辛克莱在更大的英国理想主义传统中工作，但她对绝对理想主义的论证是独一无二的，建立在塞缪尔亚历山大关于时间现实的新现实主义信念之上。她的形而上学将唯心主义和泛神论带入了新的方向，并为 1920 年代英国唯心主义和现实主义之间的辩论提供了新的见解。