Idealism Theory and Universal Human Rights

Running head: PHILOSOPHY
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PHILOSOPHY 2
Introduction
Theory refers to a group of ideas that try to elaborate on something. These ideas are
based on various principle. The task will provide an overview of both theories and talk about the
contribution of idealism to feminism.
Module 5 theory: Idealism
Evolution and overview of the theory
Idealism theory is an idea that falls under the metaphysics field of philosophy according to
Parekh, (2015). Apart from that, the idea behind the theory of idealism explains that human
beings still depend on their mind and consciousness to come up with tangible ideas that explain
various phenomena in real world situations. There are two fields in idealism, which include
objective idealism and subjective idealism. In objective idealism, it demonstrates that before
human beings come up with an idea there an independent consciousness that controls how the
human mind will make decisions when thinking about a given matter. Consequently, subjective
idealism does not consider independent knowledge but explains that individual views their world
as a group of different sensation where they can use to come up with new ideas. The main
contributors in idealism theory are the Greek Neoplatonist. One of the innovators to the ideology
is the philosopher known as Friedrich Schelling.
The idea behind idealism explains that what an individual has in mind form what the person
would consider as the reality in life. In history, the concept of idealism came from different
versions. The initial issue is that idealism disagrees the idea in which some people may claim

PHILOSOPHY 3
that the universe may exist outside of an individual’s mind. Another point in idealism is that
what an individual would consider as reality would show how the person’s mind operates. From
these two versions of idealism, it is clear that people do not truly understand what is composed of
the external world. The reason is that the mind of every person creates a specific illusion of how
the external world operates. In considering different states of consciousness, some people claim
that how the brain works is not dependent on nature. However, some people may say that a mind
is only a tool for human beings to reason according to Reider, (2016). From different views of
people on idealism, there exist various forms of idealism, which include epistemological,
platonic, subjective and objective idealism among others. In epistemological idealism, it claims
that what people can know is what is going around their mind. Nobody can know about external
things. In platonic idealism, the world that human beings are in only comprises of the shadows of
their realm, there always exists the correct field from the ideas that human nature has in mind.
The influence of idealism in history
The theory of idealism have influenced many fields around the world. Some of these fields
include science, politics, and art among other fields. From 19th century, the application of the
German idealism have emerged to be resourceful to many projects that the scientists would
undertake. For instance, during the French revolution error, many researchers came up with other
ideas that relied on idealism theory to make conclusion. For example, one of the famous
philosopher, Immanuel Kant came up with the idea of transcendental idealism after the Greek
philosophers came up with the general idealism idea according to Reider, (2016). In his
argument, Kant said that everyone’s mind determines how the person see the world. However,
there are several notions that people continue coming up with which influence the perception on
the world.