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

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 Analytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, Unit ...

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

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 ...

* A. C. Ewing

Notes

References

* * Paul Guyer, "Absolute idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism", Ch. 2 of ''The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism'', ed. by Karl Ameriks. * Peirce, C. S. (1891), "The Architecture of Theories", '' The Monist'' vol. 1, no. 2 (January 1891), pp. 161–176. ''Internet Archive'
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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 Charles Hartshorne (; June 5, 1897 – October 9, 2000) was an American philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics, but also contributed to ornithology. He developed the neoclassical idea of God and ...

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 {{metaphysics-stub