Tradition
British idealism
Overview
A subset of absolute idealism, British idealism was a philosophical movement that was influential in Britain from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The leading figures in the movement were T. H. Green (1836–1882), F. H. Bradley (1846–1924), and Bernard Bosanquet (1848–1923). They were succeeded by the second generation of J. H. Muirhead (1855–1940), J. M. E. McTaggart (1866–1925), H. H. Joachim (1868–1938), A. E. Taylor (1869–1945), and R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943). The last major figure in the tradition was G. R. G. Mure (1893–1979). Doctrines of early British idealism provoked the Cambridge philosophers G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell to develop the philosophical methodology that gave rise to a new philosophical tradition, analytic philosophy.
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John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Within the sphere of philosophic thought there have been two typical attempts to provide a working representative of the absolute goal. Both start from the conception of a whole--an absolute--which is "immanent" in human life. The perfect or complete ideal is not a mere ideal; it is operative here and now. But it is present only implicitly, "potentially," or in an enfolded condition. What is termed development is…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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Idealistic philosophies, those of Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, like the hypothesis now offered, have found the good in meanings belonging to a conscious life, a life of reason, not in external achievement. Like it, they have exalted the place of intelligence in securing fulfilment of conscious life. These theories have at least not subordinated conscious life to external obedience, not thought of virtue as something…
John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct
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Philosophers who discussed British idealism
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Heraclitus
- John Dewey
- Henry Sidgwick
- T. H. Green
- J. M. E. McTaggart
- Michael Oakeshott
- Bertrand Russell
- R. G. Collingwood
- F. H. Bradley
- Brand Blanshard
- Nicholas Rescher
- Iris Murdoch
- J. H. Muirhead
- Edward Caird
- James Hutchison Stirling
- Timothy Sprigge
- John Cook Wilson
- David George Ritchie
- William Sweet
- Alfred Edward Taylor
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Absolute idealism
- G. E. Moore
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Thomas Carlyle
- Immanuel Kant
- Individualism
- John Stuart Mill
- Analytic philosophy
- John Locke
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Henry Sidgwick
- T. H. Green
- Absolute (philosophy)
- German idealism
- Herbert Spencer
- Coherentism
- J. M. E. McTaggart
- Utilitarianism
- United States
- Michael Oakeshott
- Bertrand Russell
- Reason
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Place in the tradition
Part of Acosmism.