And who are the philosophers that contradict this idea? I need this information for a research paper.
2006-10-25 14:49:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
read the book of Being and nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre.
You will find all the answers you need.
2006-10-25 14:53:11 · answer #1 · answered by mikearthur 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps you are asking about the idealists who believed that reality entirely mental or spiritual in nature, that reality is within one's mind. If this is the view you are speaking of, George Berkeley was most well known for saying that reality is essentially in one's own mind because we can never have experience or perceptions of material reality outside of the constructs of our mental faculties. Leibniz was a famous Idealist ,and Kant drifted away from Berkeley's radical idealism and created his own transcendental idealism. Hope this helps a little or gets you on track...
2006-10-25 21:58:48 · answer #2 · answered by Jeff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A solipsist and possibly a nihilists, but both are rare indeed, since neither philosophy can be lived out. Any philosopher who wrote before the 19th century.
2006-10-25 21:55:33 · answer #3 · answered by tigranvp2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
descartes created the idea of nothing existing outside one's mind. And then in another essay he wrote, he contradicted that. Weird French men.
2006-10-25 22:30:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kierkegaard
2006-10-25 22:00:11 · answer #5 · answered by george 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
School of Philosophy called Solipsism. One of the most well known Solipsists was Rene Descartes. (Cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am).
2006-10-26 09:26:23 · answer #6 · answered by mjdoubled 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Existentialist and idealist respective
2006-10-25 21:55:10 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋