In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some ...

That’s what George Berkeley meant with his philosophy of idealism. The 18th-century philosopher came up with a pretty wild idea: “To be is to be perceived.” According to him, we don’t find ...

The Confucian school of idealist philosophers endeavored to re-establish a spiritual world for the people in the Song Dynasty, with their efforts to integrate Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

The Education of an Idealist sounds like it’s going to be the tale of what happens when a crusading journalist—as former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power once was—becomes ...

His own creed was once defined as "idealist in the tradition of Royce and pragmatist in the tradition of James." A man who applied his philosophy to religion, ethics, education, and politics ...

Lenin opposed idealist subjectivism as incompatible with a scientific understanding of the laws governing capitalist society and the revolutionary struggle. Lenin insisted, “The philosophy of ...