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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
Actually, idealism is a very broad metaphysical view that holds that all reality is made up of ideas. Essentially, the view maintains that there is no matter, only the mind. It is the opposite of materialism because it maintains that there is no mind, only matter.
A good example of a subjective idealist would be Berkley.
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Most Idealists acknowledge the existence of a material world, but they find it vastly inferior to their static, unchanging "true world" of ideas that is reached through rational thought.
AND BY THE WAY, HOW DID THIS THREAD REACH A DISCUSSION ABOUT IDEALISM/MATERIALISM/HEDONISM? Must every thread be dominated and mutated by OAO?
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