Idealism in Modern Philosophy

Idealism in Modern Philosophy

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Paul Guyer, Rolf-Peter Horstmann | 2023 | ISBN: 0192848577 | English | 244 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 2 MB
An authoritative introduction to the history of one of the main movements of modern philosophy
This book tells the story of idealism in modern philosophy, from the seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. Paul Guyer and Rolf-Peter Horstmann define idealism as the reduction of all reality to something mental in nature. Rather than distinguishing between metaphysical and epistemological versions of idealism, they distinguish between metaphysical and epistemological motivations for idealism. They argue that while metaphysical arguments for idealism have only rarely been accepted, for example by Bishop Berkeley in the early eighteenth century and the British idealists Bradley and McTaggart in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epistemological arguments for idealism have been widely accepted, even in the so-called analytic philosophy of the twentieth century.