Objective idealism is a form of metaphysical idealism that accepts
Naïve realism (the view that empirical objects exist objectively) but rejects
epiphenomenalist materialism (according to which the mind and spiritual values have emerged due to material causes), as opposed to subjective idealism denies that material objects exist independently of human perception and thus stands opposed to both realism and naturalism.
The
philosopher
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".
Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for ...
stated his own version of objective idealism in the following manner:
The one intelligible theory of the universe is that of objective idealism, that matter is effete mind, inveterate habits becoming physical laws (Peirce, CP 6.25).
A. C. Ewing is an
analytic philosopher influenced by the objective idealist tradition. His approach has been termed analytic idealism.
[Michael Beaney (ed.), ''The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy'', Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 5. n. 6.]
Notable proponents
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".
Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for ...
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Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce (; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his version of personalism, defense of absolutism, idealism and his ...
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A. C. Ewing
Notes
References
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Paul Guyer, "Absolute idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism", Ch. 2 of ''The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism'', ed. by
Karl Ameriks.
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Peirce, C. S. (1891), "The Architecture of Theories", ''
The Monist'' vol. 1, no. 2 (January 1891), pp. 161–176. ''Internet Archive'
''The Monist'' vol. 1 pag
161 Reprinted in ''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', vol. 6 (1935), paragraphs 7–34, and in The ''Essential Peirce'', vol. 1 (1992), pp. 285–297).
* Peirce, C. S., ''
Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', vols. 1–6,
Charles Hartshorne and
Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7–8,
Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931–1935, 1958. (Cited as CP vol.para.)
Idealism
Metaphysical theories
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