Idealism
the name given to certain philosophical systems which deny the individual existence of object apart from subject; or of both apart from God or pearances the Absolute. Idealism denies the exist- ence of bodies, holding that their apthe Absolute. Idealism denies the existence of bodies, holding that their apism that God is their author. To these produced by the mind; objective idealare merely ideas (perceptive idealism teaches that these ideas are produced by the mind; objective idealism that God is their author. To these anticipated modern idealism. Berkeley duced. Zeno of Elea, in classic times, anticipated modern idealism. Berkeley ism. Kant has been claimed as an idealand Leibnitz did much to revive idealism. Kant has been claimed as an idealhe refers all modifications of Ideal phi- jectif one of the three divisions to which he refers all modifications of Ideal philosophy. Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel are the founders of the great schools of German Idealism, called respectively, but is dependent on the subject; the non- Fichte the object has no real existence, but is dependent on the subject; the nonman soul). For Schelling object and subject are equally real, and equally tem the Absolute, the Substance of Spitem the Absolute, the Substance of Spiis the relation between the Ego and the is the relation between the Ego and the non-Ego.