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Idealism is the philosophical theory that maintains that the ultimate nature of reality is based on mind or ideas. It holds that the so-called external or "real world" is inseparable from mind, consc...
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Plato's idealism extended to the concept of an ideal state, as outlined in his "Republic". This was a state ruled by an intellectual elite of philosopher kings. An attempt to put his political theory into practice in Sicily proved a bitter failure.
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Platonism is the oldest form of idealism, and Plato himself the progenitor of idealists. It is usual to place in contrast Plato'sidealism and Aristotle'srealism; the latter in fact denies that ideas are originals and that things are mere copies;
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This said, it would be interesting and important to know just where Plato himself looked to find what he believed in. Plato had two major ways of thinking that contrast each other: an idealism and a realism. Among Plato’s great writings, the Republic stands out as one of his greatest.
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There are two forms of Idealism. Subjective Idealism is the view that the individual’s mind is paramount. When I see a tree, what I really observe is the idea of that tree in my mind. The point at issue is whether that tree exists independently of the idea of it that is in my mind.
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Plato is often considered the first idealist philosopher, chiefly because of his metaphysical doctrine of Forms. The 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley was one of the major exponents of idealism. He held that the object of knowledge is an idea and that ideas can exist only in the mind;
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Despite his mistakes and the complete untenability of his system, Plato may with all justice be called the father of idealism. Whether this was a signal service to humanity is, of course, a question that will be answered in different ways by representatives of different schools of abstract thought.
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Thus, he was a religious man and like Plato, emphasized idealism over matter. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) emphasized ideas when he focused on human thought processes. He held that the rationalist thinks analytically (priori) and the empiricist thinks synthetically (posteriori).
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Plato represents idealism, the idea that one should go inside ones self and use ones thinking to figure out ideals, how things ought to be, archetypes (how things are in their natural state before man contaminates them), and use them to compare the external world and bring the external world to their standards.
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