Concept
Objective idealism
Overview
idealistic metaphysics
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Such beauty is related to the _form_ alone, because it is only as such that it is the external appearance, in which the objective idealism of the principle of life makes itself known to us as a thing perceived and contemplated upon through the senses. Thought apprehends this "objective idealism" in the medium of its notion, appropriating the same in the element of _universality_ which belongs to it, albeit the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
The author is tied to Objective idealism in the knowledge graph; names Objective idealism twice.
But natural values become ideal the moment their maintenance is dependent upon the intentional activities of an empirical agent. To suppose that values are ideal because they are so eternally given is the contradiction in which objective idealism has intrenched itself. Objective ontological teleology spells machinery.
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
States what Objective idealism is; names Objective idealism.
It suffices to point out that the value of this theory is bound up with the genuineness of the problem of which it purports to be a solution. If the basic concept is a fiction, there is no call for the solution. The more important point is to perceive how far the "thought" which figures in objective idealism comes from meeting the empirical demands made upon actual thought. Idealism is much less formal than historic…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
Names Objective idealism twice.
Philosophers who discussed Objective idealism
- Meister Eckhart
- Josiah Royce
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- William Ernest Hocking
- Branislav Petronijević
- Vittorio Hösle
Related ideas
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Materialism
- German idealism
- Plato
- Theory of forms
- Subjective idealism
- Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher)
- Josiah Royce
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Modern philosophy
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.