Idealism opposites

Essay Question # 3: Compare And Contrast
Submitted by: Serena Rogers # A031489
Submitted To: Edith Farkas
Course: Humanities: Knowledge & Authority
Submitted On: December 10.02
“The Faces Of Idealism”
by Serena Rogers
Platonic Idealism is the view that ideas are independent of the thinking mind; existing incorporeally without sequence or co- existence, and that ideal forms (perfect ideas) exist eternally and absolutely. Plato thought that ideas were permanent and more real than material things because material things were in constant transition ( state of change). Plato’s Theory of Forms defines forms or ideas as existing in sets. The set encompasses the idea itself and all particular things which have the common denominator of that idea. Each particular thing participates in the set of the form, and if any one of the particulars were to cease, the form would remain.
This theory is discussed in Th...