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    Idealism is a philosophy that believes ideas and thoughts are superior to and more real than the material world. It views the world as existing dependent on the mind, with matter only appearing as a consequence of ideas. Plato is considered the father of idealism, expressing these views in works like The Republic by arguing that true reality consists of ideas, not physical things. Later idealist philosophers include George Berkeley, who believed matter does not exist and the universe consists of ideas, and Immanuel Kant, who argued our experience is how things appear rather than how they truly are. Friedrich Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel also espoused forms of idealism focusing on the mind or spirit.

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    Idealism is a philosophy that believes ideas and thoughts are superior to and more real than the material world. It views the world as existing dependent on the mind, with matter only appearing as a consequence of ideas. Plato is considered the father of idealism, expressing these views in works like The Republic by arguing that true reality consists of ideas, not physical things. Later idealist philosophers include George Berkeley, who believed matter does not exist and the universe consists of ideas, and Immanuel Kant, who argued our experience is how things appear rather than how they truly are. Friedrich Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel also espoused forms of idealism focusing on the mind or spirit.

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    IDEALISM

    Idealism, as a philosophy, believes in the superiorityof the “mind” over “matter.” This dualistic outlook
    identifies authentic knowledge with thoughts and ideas and rejects those that arise from schools of
    thought that rely on the material world for knowledge . Plato, who lived around 427-348 BCE, laid down
    the foundations of idealism.

    MAIN TENET
    THE PRIMACY OF IDEAS
    In its broad sence, idealism holds that ideas are the only true reality. This notion is expressed in several
    ways; the real is of the nature of thought; the objects of external perceptions consists of ideas; ideas or
    thought make up fundamental reality the only thing that is knowable is consciousness (or the contents
    of conciuosness), the only real things are mental entities, not physical things (which exist only in the
    sense that they are perceive) (Mastin 2008).

    DICHOTOMY OF ”MIND” OF “MATTER”


    Idealism is dualistic because of its tendency to dichotomize or separate “mind” from “matter.” In
    general idealism views the world as existing dependent of the mind, whereby the consequential belief is
    that thought is real and matter is just an appearance. From this distinction it can be deduced how
    “ideas” are perceived as superior, affirming the understanding that reality is associated with mind and
    idea from which matter proceeds only as an effector consequence (Zulueta 2010,167)

    PHILOSOPHERS
    PLATO
    Plato was regarded as the father of idealism. Coming from one of the oldest and most elite of Athenian
    families, his real name was Aristocles and he alive around 427-348 BCE, . In this book entitled Republic,
    written around 400 BCE, he expressed his views that are now collectivity and commonly know as
    idealism.

    GEORGE BERKELEY
    George Bekerley was an Irish philosopher who lived around 1685-1753.He was educated at trinity
    college, Dublin, where he also spent his career as an educator. Being an Angelican bishop, his life’s work
    was devoted to reconciling his Christian faith with science, proving that alhough matter does not excist,
    the laws of physics, being God’s laws, gevern a universe made up of ideas (Pojmon 1996,134).

    IMMANUEL KANT
    Immanuel Kant, who lived from 1724-1804, was one of the most important philosophers in the Westurn
    tradition. He was born in konisberg, Germany, to a poor but deeply pientistic family.A proponent of
    transcendential idealism, Kant believed that our experience of things is how things is about how they
    appear to us, not about how things are in and of themselves.
    FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH SCHELLING
    Born in Leonberg, near Stuttgart on 27 January 1775, F.W.J. Schelling attended a Protestant seminary in
    Tubingen from 1790 to 1795. Schelling, a proponent of objective idealism, believes that the world “out
    there”is in fact the Mind communicating with our human minds.

    GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL


    Born in Stuttgart in 1770,G.W.F. Hegel was educated at the Royal High School in Stuttgart from 1777-
    1788. In October 1788, Hegel began studies at a theological seminary in tubingen, the Tuberger Stift.
    G.W.F. Hegel was known for espousing absolute idealism. His starting point was similar to that of kant,
    who argued that the mind is not capable of knowing “things-in-themselves” and asserted that what is
    real is the mind, also known as the geist.

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