- Absolute idealism
- Friedrich Schelling and G. W. F. Hegel, both of whom were German idealist philosophers in the 19th century.
- According to Hegel, being is ultimately comprehensible only as an all-inclusive whole ([das Absolute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute(philosophy) “Absolute (philosophy)”)). Hegel asserted that in order for the thinking subject (human reason or consciousness) to be able to know its [object](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object(philosophy) “Object (philosophy)”) (the world) at all, there must be in some sense an identity of thought and being. Otherwise, the subject would never have access to the object and we would have no certainty about any of our knowledge of the world.
- The absolute idealist position dominated philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain and Germany, while exerting significantly less influence in the United States.
- Absolute idealism - Wikipedia
- Subjective Idealism
- Transcendental Idealism
- Critical Idealism
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