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[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism
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Full Idea
To say that Leibniz is an idealist is to say that simple substances, the basic building-blocks of the universe, are all mental or at least quasi-mental in nature
Clarification
'Quasi-' means somewhat
Gist of Idea
Leibniz is an idealist insofar as the basic components of his universe are all mental
Source
report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Nicholas Jolley - Leibniz Ch.3
Book Ref
Jolley,Nicholas: 'Leibniz' [Routledge 2005], p.88
A Reaction
This is a bit different from the Berkelian type of idealism, which says that reality consists entirely of events within thinking minds. Is a monad the thinker or the thought?
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[general thoughs about reality as ideas]:
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The world is just the illusion of an appearance
[Anon (Dham)]
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5958
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The sun is always bright; it doesn't become bright when it emerges
[Plutarch]
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A whole is just its parts, but there are no smallest parts, so only minds and perceptions exist
[Leibniz]
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Leibniz said dualism of mind and body is illusion, and there is only mind
[Leibniz, by Martin/Barresi]
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Leibniz is an idealist insofar as the basic components of his universe are all mental
[Leibniz, by Jolley]
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We have no sensual experience of time and space, so they must be 'ideal'
[Kant, by Pinkard]
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21456
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Objects having to be experiencable is not the same as full idealism
[Gardner on Kant]
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If we disappeared, then all relations of objects, and time and space themselves, disappear too
[Kant]
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Mental presentation are not empirical, but concern the strivings of the self
[Fichte]
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For Schopenhauer, material things would not exist without the mind
[Schopenhauer, by Janaway]
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21923
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Schopenhauer can't use force/energy instead of 'will', because he is not a materialist
[Lewis,PB on Schopenhauer]
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4162
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The world only exists in relation to something else, as an idea of the one who conceives it
[Schopenhauer]
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We know reality because we know our own bodies and actions
[Schopenhauer]
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'Idealism' says that everything which exists is in some sense mental
[Russell]
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Eliminative idealists say there are no objects; reductive idealists say objects exist as complex experiences
[Dancy,J]
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Idealism explains appearances by identifying appearances with reality
[Heil]
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While space may just be appearance, time and change can't be, because the appearances change
[Lowe]
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Idealism is the link between reason and freedom
[Pinkard]
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Strong idealism is the sort of mess produced by a Cartesian separation of mind and world
[Rowlands]
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