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idealism

3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

George Berkeley

Anglo-Irish philosopher and bishop — author of A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge — who argued that material substance does not exist and that reality consists entirely of minds and ideas — the most radical empiricist idealist.

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Thinker

J.M.E. McTaggart

British idealist philosopher who made the most influential contribution to the philosophy of time: the distinction between the A-series (past/present/future) and B-series (earlier/later-than), and the argument that time is ultimately unreal.

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Book

The Nature of Existence

McTaggart's two-volume systematic metaphysics, arguing that only spirits and their love-relations truly exist — matter and time are appearances.

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