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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 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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Classical Greek idealism

Idealism in Judaism and Christianity

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related to Primary · 114
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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

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

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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
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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

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