Idealism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani defines idealism in contrast to realism: whereas realism holds that the world exists objectively, idealism holds that only thought exists and that reality is merely representation1. He specifies that, for idealism, the external world is only a representation of the subject, and he distinguishes three moments in it: subjective, objective and then absolute idealism2. He does not simply reject it. He recalls that Marx credits idealism with having understood the construction of reality3. He also cites Lenin, for whom the idea of the good in Hegel is at once the most idealist and the most materialist passage4. Finally, he turns the charge against a certain way of opposing matter to mind: this opposition is already idealist, since it presupposes a mind that would owe nothing to matter5.

1. 1Staël (Mme de )26 May 2019 · 54:48
2. 2"Je est un autre" ou l'identité contradictoire12 Dec 2023 · 40:27
3. 3H comme Hegel22 Dec 2014 · 9:03
4. 4H comme Hegel22 Dec 2014 · 13:02
5. 5La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 1:42:16

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