Idealism

A family of views on which mind, experience, or an ideal order is fundamental to reality.

“Idealism” covers Berkeley’s immaterialism, later absolute idealisms, and other claims that the physical is not the basic inventory. The word is not a compliment and not a religious category. NOEMA’s right pole is this coarse inclination. Phenomenology, Madhyamaka, and dualism can reject a completed physicalism without accepting the pole.

Six axes

• Reality

Philosophers

• Plato
• René Descartes

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Idealism”