Idealism : The History of a Philosophy.
- 1st ed.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the text -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I Ancient idealism -- 1. Parmenides and the birth of ancient idealism -- 2. Plato and Neoplatonism -- II Idealism and early modern philosophy -- 3. Phenomenalism and idealism I: Descartes and Malebranche -- 4. Phenomenalism and idealism II: Leibniz and Berkeley -- III German idealism -- 5. Immanuel Kant: cognition, freedom and teleology -- 6. Fichte and the system of freedom -- 7. Idealist philosophy of nature: F. W. J Schelling -- 8. Hegel and Hegelianism: mind, nature and logic -- IV British idealism -- 9. British absolute idealism: from Green to Bradley -- 10. Personal idealism: from Ward to McTaggart -- 11. Naturalist idealism: Bernard Bosanquet -- 12. Criticisms and persistent misconceptions of idealism -- 13. Actual occasions and eternal objects: the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead -- V Contemporary idealisms -- 14. Self-organization: the idea in late-twentieth-century science -- 15. Contemporary philosophical idealism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Idealism is philosophy on a grand scale, combining micro and macroscopic problems into systematic accounts of everything from the nature of the universe to the particulars of human feeling. This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the major arguments and philosophers in the Idealist tradition.