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  1. Idealism

    Idealism. First published Sun Aug 30, 2015; substantive revision Fri Feb 5, 2021. This entry discusses philosophical idealism as a movement chiefly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although anticipated by certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy and continuing into the twentieth century. It revises the standard distinction ...

  2. Idealism

    idealism, in philosophy, any view that stresses the central role of the ideal or the spiritual in the interpretation of experience.It may hold that the world or reality exists essentially as spirit or consciousness, that abstractions and laws are more fundamental in reality than sensory things, or, at least, that whatever exists is known in dimensions that are chiefly mental—through and as ...

  3. Idealism

    Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that there is some higher "ideal form" of reality.Because there are numerous forms of idealism, it is difficult to define the term.

  4. Introduction

    Abstract. This introduction offers our definition of idealism proper as the reduction of reality to something mental or conceptual. Then, instead of distinguishing between metaphysical and epistemological versions of idealism, we distinguish between metaphysical and epistemological arguments or motivations for idealism.

  5. Idealism

    Idealism - Philosophy, Reality, Mind: In defining philosophical idealism in its historical development as a technical metaphysical doctrine, three most-difficult and irreducible questions arise. From the efforts to answer those questions there has been created an extensive literature that is the corpus of philosophical idealism. The first of the three questions is metaphysical: What is the ...

  6. Idealism

    In this essay, I use "idealism" as a synonym for "idealist aesthetics" or "aesthetic idealism," understood as an aesthetic norm based on the belief that the task of art (poetry, writing, literature, music) is to uplift us, to point the way to the ideal. Idealists thought that beauty, truth, and goodness were one.

  7. Idealism and Freedom

    Henry Allison is one of the foremost interpreters of the philosophy of Kant. This new volume collects all his recent essays on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. All the essays postdate Allison's two major books on Kant (Kant's Transcendental Idealism, 1983, and Kant's Theory of Freedom, 1990), and together they constitute an attempt ...

  8. Idealism in Modern Philosophy

    This book examines the presence of idealism in modern philosophy from the seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. We define idealism proper as the position that reality is ultimately mental or conceptual in nature, to be contrasted to materialism or physicalism. So defined, idealism has hardly been a popular view, at least in the ...

  9. The Idealism-Realism Debate and the Great Phenomenological Schism

    A prominent philosophical debate at the turn of the twentieth century was the one between idealism and realism. This debate was born in the eighteenth century, primarily in response to the writings of Leibniz and Berkeley, and dominated the landscape of German philosophy following Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Footnote 16 The various idealist positions that arose in the wake of Kant's ...

  10. George Hegel: The Philosophy of Idealism Essay

    Hegel's idealism and existentialism are very contradictory and mistakable; this fact can be proved by the examples of many European thinkers. For example, Kierkegaard rejected Hegel's flow of thought because of the individual's dissolvent into abstract unreality described by Hegel. In order to demonstrate the contrast between two thinkers ...

  11. Philosophical Idealism and Educational Theory

    The effect of philosophical idealism on educational theory is apparent in other, mainly German, thinkers of the past 250 years (especially Kant, Hegel and Schelling). Nowhere, however, is it expressed so forcefully and directly as it is in these works, and never during this time did it exercise such influence as it did on the development of ...

  12. Idealism Pt. 1: Berkeley's Subjective Idealism

    Conclusions. We should take away three important points from this essay. First, idealism is the view that the way reality is depends upon the way the mind is. Second, one version of idealism, Berkeleyan subjective idealism, holds that all there is are ideas, the minds that possess those ideas, and God.4 Third and finally, while Berkeley's ...

  13. Idealism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2017 Edition)

    Idealism. First published Sun Aug 30, 2015. This entry discusses philosophical idealism as a movement chiefly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although anticipated by certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy. It examines the relationship between epistemological idealism (the view that the contents of human knowledge are ...

  14. George Berkeley's idealism: an examination of the idealist metaphysics

    research further explores the fundamentals of idealism in light of philosophy of mind, highlighting idealism's intrinsic connection to this discipline. While this work is far from exhaustive, it provides the reader with essential information on Berkeley's idealism and proves its worth as a philosophy in today's world.

  15. Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics

    The familiar narrative about the early days of analytic philosophy tells us of its triumph over the needless metaphysical excesses of its immediate forerunners, the idealists. In one form or another, idealism was the paramount philosophical view of the 19 th century. Nowadays, however, the bulwarks of idealism are largely abandoned.

  16. Idealism

    Idealism Idealism Overview. Idealism is a philosophical viewpoint that asserts that reality - or reality as we can know it - is fundamentally mental or spiritually constructed.; Seen as a direct contrast to materialism which holds that the primary substance of reality is material or physical.; It focuses on ideas and cognition, often discounting the importance of physical matter.

  17. Concepts Of Idealism And Realism Philosophy Essay

    Concepts Of Idealism And Realism Philosophy Essay. Idealist, idealized, ideal (adjective), and the ideal (noun), all of are derived from the Greek idea which means new thought flashed across the mind. This signifies "image", "figure, "form": it can be used in the sense of "likeness", or "copy" as well as in that of "type ...

  18. Idealism and Realism: A Philosophical Comparison

    In conclusion, idealism and realism are two philosophical theories that have been debated for centuries. They have both had a significant impact on philosophy and science, and their implications extend to our everyday lives. Idealism emphasizes the mental or spiritual nature of reality, while realism focuses on the physical and material aspects ...

  19. Idealism like a Philosophical System: [Essay Example], 485 words

    Words: 485 | Page: 1 | 3 min read. Published: Feb 12, 2019. Idealism is philosophical system. In philosophy, idealism is a long-established tradition. The roots of idealism are embedded deep down in history of philosophy, stretched from beginning and extended to present. Idealism can be seen as a system within the field of metaphysics.

  20. Merits and Limitations of Idealism as a Philosophy of Education

    Limitations of Idealism as a Philosophy of Education. Idealism is often regarded to be a vague and an abstract doctrine. It enables the learners to be prepared for the next world but it does so by avoiding the present realities. It is also concerned with the ultimate end of life which leads it to neglect the real problems that occur in day to ...

  21. Essay on Idealism

    Idealism as a school of philosophy believes in mind and idolizes it. This philosophy seeks to explain and interpret man and universe in terms of spirit or mind. It gives its priority to spirit, which is real and as such the entire universe is the extension of the mind or spirit. Idealism shifts its emphasis from the scientific facts of life to ...

  22. PDF Idealism and Education: Exploring the Philosophical Foundations of

    This research paper delves into the philosophy of idealism and its implications for education. Idealism is a philosophical worldview that emphasizes the primacy of ideas, thoughts, and mental constructs in shaping ... such as academic papers, books, interviews, and classroom observations, to identify recurring themes and patterns related to ...

  23. NPR responds after editor says it has 'lost America's trust' : NPR

    NPR is defending its journalism and integrity after a senior editor wrote an essay accusing it of losing the public's trust. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption