14 Facts About Idealism

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Idealism holds that consciousness is the origin of the material world.

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Idealism held that Mind held the cosmos together and gave human beings a connection to the cosmos or a pathway to the divine.

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Idealism was opposed by dualists Samkhya, the atomists Vaisheshika, the logicians Nyaya, the linguists Mimamsa and the materialists Carvaka.

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Buddhist views which can be said to be similar to Idealism appear in Mahayana Buddhist texts such as the Samdhinirmocana sutra, Lankavatara Sutra, Dashabhumika sutra, etc.

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Idealism argued that in Berkeley's case the fallacy is not obvious and this is because one premise is ambiguous between one meaning which is tautological and another which, Stove argues, is logically equivalent to the conclusion.

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Foster's The Case for Idealism argues that the physical world is the logical creation of natural, non-logical constraints on human sense-experience.

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Idealism added that the mind is not a blank slate, tabula rasa but rather comes equipped with categories for organising our sense impressions.

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Idealism defined the ideal as being mental pictures that constitute subjective knowledge.

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Idealism offered a history of the concept of the "ideal" as "ideational" or "existing in the mind as an image".

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Idealism's system is based on Immanuel Kant's, as his chosen term "neo-criticisme" indicates; but it is a transformation rather than a continuation of Kantianism.

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11.

The 1903 article The Refutation of Idealism is one of the first demonstrations of Moore's commitment to analysis.

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Idealism further believes that thoughts are the only concept that truly exist since reality is defined through the act of thinking.

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Howison, in his book The Limits of Evolution and Other Essays Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Idealism, created a democratic notion of personal idealism that extended all the way to God, who was no more the ultimate monarch but the ultimate democrat in eternal relation to other eternal persons.

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Idealism further writes that his research in quantum physics has led him to conclude that an "ultimate reality" exists, which is not embedded in space or time.

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