Argument
Reality
Overview
Sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent
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Possible passages
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And in this sense the sun that I see by day is the real sun, and that which I imagine by night is the idea of the former. In the sense here given of REALITY it is evident that every vegetable, star, mineral, and in general each part of the mundane system, is as much a REAL BEING by our principles as by any other. Whether others mean anything by the term REALITY different from what I do, I entreat them to look into…
George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Names Reality several times; states what Reality is.
Feeling, anticipation, knowledge of God, are only thus in men; without such, the divine Mind would not be the in and for itself Universal. Reality is itself a real content and not the destitute of content and undetermined; yet, as the book has other content besides, there is in the individual mind also a great amount of other matter which belongs only to the manifestation of this reality, and the individual…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Names Reality several times; states what Reality is.
When he tells us that reality is a continuous whole, he does so on the basis of a metaphysical presupposition which is not justifiable by his theory of the judgment. The only statement about reality which could be maintained on the basis of his theory is that some sort of a reality exists, but the theory furnishes equal justification for the assurance that this reality is of such a nature that we can never know…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Names Reality several times; states what Reality is.
Philosophers who discussed Reality
- Mulla Sadra
- Hermann Lotze
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Xenophanes
- Intellectual
- Plato
- Parmenides
- Protagoras
- Gianni Vattimo
- Arthur Prior
- Karl Jaspers
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Alfred Korzybski
- Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi
- Vladimir Lossky
- Leon Chwistek
- Transcendent theosophy
- Hans Blumenberg
- The Library of Babel
- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- Raghunatha Shiromani
- Joseph Margolis
- Zera Yacob (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Category (Kant)
- Moral nihilism
- Noumenon
- Emotion
- French language
- Cognition
- History
- Force
- Elementary particle
- Avicenna
- George Berkeley
- G. E. Moore
- General relativity
- Quality (philosophy)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Li (neo-Confucianism)
- Philosophical realism
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Zeno of Elea
- Yin and yang
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.