IDEALISM

Name: Yesuraj F.

Reg: no: B09050.
Idealism
Idealism is based on the false assumption that "knowledge alone is
knowable." This is a false assumption, since every man has clear and
stable consciousness that his judgments, in order to be true, should
he affirmed objectively. That is to say, in every true judgment, the
subject should attain the transcendence of the object. The fact that
subject is incapable of identifying itself with the object indicates
the normative reality of the object. Otherwise, the experienced facts
of human knowledge would remain inexplicable.
Its inconsistency consists in the fact that it wants to teach that
there are many individual knower; since everything known is the
projection of the individual knower, it follows that even the
assertion that there are other persons is itself a projection of the
knower. Hence not only are material objects made to be by thought, but
the same is true of other knowers. The result is that the only
existent is myself thinking, all else is but a radical denial rather
than a coherent explanation of human knowledge.
In regard objective experience idealism holds that our knowledge is
creative of its object, that is, only that of which I am conscious
actually exists. Now the fact of my creation of the object is
something of which I was in no way conscious and until the Idealists
appeared; hence, according to their system, this creation by mind was
objectively true, independent of my knowledge by idealism itself.
Moreover, the notion of truth loses all meaning in this system, since
the only reality at any given moment is what is grasped at that
moment; hence all previous, "truths," are submerged or ejected by one
now in possession. This process, however, is a continuous,
never-ending one so that at no moment can I ever say that what I know
is definitely true. There is thus no objective truth at all, despite
hat verbal rejection of skepticism and relativism. Knowledge itself
ceases, in the last analysis, to be a relational act whereby a subject
knows something about an object.
Source from class notes