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Idealism: Definitions, Idealism in Eastern philosophy & Modern philosophy

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 or truth is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being…

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Idealism topic overview

The analysis highlights Definitions, Idealism in Eastern philosophy and Modern philosophy as prominent areas in the source structure around Idealism. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
370
Source areas
9
Connected nodes
380
Extracted relationships
526
Concept neighborhoods
59
Bridge connections
380

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 143 topics
Idealism in Eastern philosophy · 73 topics
Modern philosophy · 68 topics
Definitions · 34 topics
Idealism in Judaism and Christianity · 18 topics
Classical Greek idealism · 13 topics
Criticism · 10 topics
Primary · 7 topics
Other · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

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Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Definitions

Classical Greek idealism

Idealism in Judaism and Christianity

Idealism in Eastern philosophy

Modern philosophy

Criticism

Primary

Other

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Idealism connects Entity context

The extracted context around Idealism shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Idealism → Absolute Idealism, Aiyaswami, An Idealist View, Appearance, Arthur, Berkeley, Bradley, Buddhist Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Ch, Chinese Versions, Chéng Wéishì Lùn, Clarendon Press, Columbia University Press, Commentary, Consciousness Only, Consciousness-only, Copious Extracts, Critique, Dharmapāla Another extracted example is Idealism → Acumen, Ananda Marga Publications, Brill Publishers, Calcutta, Cambridge University Press, Dunham, Grant, Horstmann, Human Society, Iain Hamilton, II, Inayatullah, India, Indian Idealism, ISBN, Jeremy, Kant's Idealism, Kenneth, Kierkegaard, Leiden. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Idealism

Top relations

related to Primary · 114
Idealism → Absolute Idealism, Aiyaswami, An Idealist View, Appearance, Arthur, Berkeley, Bradley, Buddhist Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Ch, Chinese Versions, Chéng Wéishì Lùn, Clarendon Press, Columbia University Press, Commentary, Consciousness Only, Consciousness-only, Copious Extracts, Critique, Dharmapāla
related to Other · 49
Idealism → Acumen, Ananda Marga Publications, Brill Publishers, Calcutta, Cambridge University Press, Dunham, Grant, Horstmann, Human Society, Iain Hamilton, II, Inayatullah, India, Indian Idealism, ISBN, Jeremy, Kant's Idealism, Kenneth, Kierkegaard, Leiden
related to Buddhist philosophy · 36
Idealism → Asaṅga, Buddhist, Dan Lusthaus, Descent, Dharmakīrti, Dharmapāla, Dignāga, East Asian Buddhism, Explanation, German, However, India, Indian Buddhist, Indian Yogacarins, Indian Yogācāra Buddhism, Jay Garfield, Jñānaśrīmitra, Kant, Lambert Schmithausen, Laṅka
related to Chinese philosophy · 36
Idealism → Awakening, Ch, China, Chinese Buddhist, Chinese Buddhists, Chinese Yogācāra, Consciousness-only, East Asian Buddhist, East Asian Yogācāra Buddhism, Faith, His, Huayan, In Chinese, Indian, Japan, Jorgensen, Korea, Kuiji, Mahāyāna, Many Chinese Buddhist
related to Platonism and neoplatonism · 33
Idealism → According, Anything, Arne Grøn, Because, Being, Enn, Enneads, For Neoplatonist, Good, Goodness, Greek, Idea, Intellect, Justice, Late Platonist, Ludwig Noiré, Maria Luisa Gatti, Nathaniel Alfred Boll, Neoplatonist, Nevertheless
related to Contemporary idealism · 26
Idealism → Absolute Idealism, Anglo-American, Bernardo Kastrup, Howard Robinson, In, Infinite Minds, John, John Andrew Foster, Leslie, Leslie Armour, Luce, Matter, Objective Idealism, Perception, Philosophical Cosmology, Recent, Sense, Several, The Idea, The Vindication
related to External links · 26
Idealism → Bradley, CertaintyIdealism, Colin, Dowden, Edward, Encyclopædia Britannica, German, Grayling-Wittgenstein, Gresham College, In Fieser, Indiana Philosophy Ontology ProjectMcQuillan, Internet Encyclopedia, ISSN, James, John, March, Muirhead, OCLC, Philosophy, PhilPapersIdealism
related to Anglo-American Idealism · 25
Idealism → American, Anglo-American, Aristotle, Bernard Bosanquet, Bradley, Brand Blanshard, British, Collingwood, During, English, Green, Hegelianism, However, It, Joachim, Josiah Royce, Kant, Key, Many Anglo-American, McTaggart
related to Criticism · 22
Idealism → American, Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell's, British, Common Sense, Defence, English, Guyer, Holt, In, It, Moore, Philosophy, Ralph Barton Perry, Refutation, Roy Wood Sellars, Russell, The Problems, The Refutation, Their
related to Idealism in Judaism and Christianity · 21
Idealism → According, Areopagite, Aristotelian, Augustine, Cappadocian Fathers, Christian, Dermot Moran, Despite, For, God, God's, Jewish, John Scotus Eriugena, Kabbalistic, Mystical, Platonic, Pseudo-Dionysius, Samuel Lebens, Scotus, Some Christian

Important terminology

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Important terminology

reality philosophy also world mind consciousness like knowledge one absolute idealist existence thus things metaphysical individual argues ideas view objects

Idealism relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 526 structured relationships around Idealism. Examples in this analysis include Idealism → is a → view which holds that all of reality is in some way mental and Idealism → is a → thesis that concrete reality is wholly grounded in micro-level mentality. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Idealismis aview which holds that all of reality is in some way mental0.90text
Idealismis athesis that concrete reality is wholly grounded in micro-level mentality0.90text
Idealismis athesis that concrete reality is wholly grounded in macro-level mentality0.90text
Idealismis athesis that concrete reality is wholly grounded in cosmic mentality0.90text
Idealismis abetter explanation than realism for everyday experiences0.90text
Idealismis ainference from0.90text
Idealismis atype of epistemological idealism0.90text
Idealismis aform of idealism developed by Giovanni Gentile which argues that reality is the ongoing act of thinking0.90text
Berkeley postulates.A more recent definition by Willem deVries sees idealism asinstance ofor the experience of a God0.80text
humansinstance ofentities0.80text
perhaps non-human animalsinstance ofentities0.80text
that of Hermann Lotze offers a theory of theinstance ofdefended a form of Kabbalistic idealism in which the world was God's dream or a fictional tale told by God.Later Western theistic idealism0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Idealism bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Philosophy, Also and Like. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Idealism
    • Philosophy
    • Also
    • Like
    • Metaphysical
    • Defended
    • Reality
    • Modern
    • Mind
    • World
    • Mental
    • Absolute
    • Things
  • idealism
    • Philosophy
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    • Metaphysical
    • Defended
    • Reality
    • Modern
    • Mind
    • World
    • Mental
    • Absolute
    • Things
  • philosophy
    • Modern
    • Idealist
    • Defended
    • Like
    • Kant
    • Thinkers
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    • Yogācāra
    • Reality
    • Mind
    • World
    • Mental
  • metaphysical
    • Mental
    • Reality
    • View
    • Argument
    • Kant
    • Idealist
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    • Philosophy
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    • Existence
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    • God
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  • mind
    • Ideas
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    • Existence
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    • Berkeley
    • Thus
    • Idealist
    • View
    • Like
    • Mental
  • consciousness
    • Argues
    • Nature
    • Brahman
    • Mind
    • Must
    • Objects
    • Individual
    • Yogācāra
    • Reality
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    • Object
    • Since
  • indian philosophy
    • Modern
    • Idealist
    • Defended
    • Like
    • Kant
    • Thinkers
    • Thought
    • Yogācāra
    • Reality
    • Mind
    • World
    • Mental

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Idealism, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Idealism with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
IdealismOverview · splits 237 ⟂ 144
IdealismIdealism in Eastern philosophy · splits 307 ⟂ 74
IdealismModern philosophy · splits 312 ⟂ 69
IdealismDefinitions · splits 346 ⟂ 35
IdealismIdealism in Judaism and Christianity · splits 362 ⟂ 19
IdealismClassical Greek idealism · splits 367 ⟂ 14
IdealismCriticism · splits 370 ⟂ 11
IdealismPrimary · splits 373 ⟂ 8
IdealismOther · splits 375 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Idealism

Nodes381
Edges380
Triples526
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005249
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Idealism to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Definitions, Idealism in Eastern philosophy & Modern philosophy, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Idealism · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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