Therefore, the “idealism” part of German idealism becomes clear, as Kant argued that our cognition shapes our knowledge of the outer world. However, the later German idealist philosophers who ...

In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some ...

The Confucian school of idealist philosophers endeavored to re-establish a spiritual world for the people in the Song Dynasty, with their efforts to integrate Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

However, the proposal is not that all of modern Continental philosophy rests on a mistaken interpretation of Hegel. Many other issues were certainly in play. But, the contestation between idealism and ...

Lenin opposed idealist subjectivism as incompatible with a scientific understanding of the laws governing capitalist society and the revolutionary struggle. Lenin insisted, “The philosophy of ...