Position

Idealism

Mind, experience, or conceptual activity is fundamental to reality or to its knowable form.

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Domains
Metaphysics

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  • German Idealism

    Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel radicalized Kant's transcendental idealism: a thing must be an object for consciousness to be an object at all, so mind or spirit is constitutive of reality's knowable form.

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