Objective idealism
The objective idealism is a world view in which the material being an intellectual is being based. As a philosophical conception, it stands ontologically in opposition to materialism . At the same time, it must be distinguished from spiritualism .
While subjective idealism emphasizes the dependence of reality on subjective consciousness, objective or absolute idealism understands reality as a form of the spiritual and ideal and considers it possible for the thinking consciousness to grasp an objective reality.
The philosophy of Plato and German idealism are examples of this variant of idealism . Important philosophers of German idealism in the succession of Immanuel Kant are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling as objective idealists, while Johann Gottlieb Fichte represented a subjective idealism.
Modern representatives of an objective idealism are z. B. Vittorio Hösle and Dieter Wandschneider .
In 1925, Rudolf Steiner also described his own philosophical position as objective idealism. In 1891 he introduced the term as a consequence of the epistemology based on "truth and science" and differentiated it on the one hand from the empirical concept of positivism and neo-Kantianism and on the other hand from Hegel's absolute idealism.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Steiner: My Life Course (GA 28). Rudolf Steiner Estate Administration, Dornach 2000, ISBN 3-7274-0280-6 , p. 93.
- ↑ Steiner, Rudolf: Truth and Science: Prelude to a "Philosophy of Freedom". (1891) 5th, revised edition. Ed .: R. Steiner. Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach 1980, ISBN 3-7274-0030-7 , p. 15 .