wp35. A useful summary of the idealist point of view is F.H. Bradley's article "On Floating Ideas" published in 1908.1
Bradley spotlights "the mistakes which follow from any attempt to sunder the human world, to divide things from ideas, to identify the real with matter of fact, or to set apart somewhere by itself a superior realm of earnest."
Also, "The world of reality, we may say in a word, is the world of values, and values are not judged absolutely but are everywhere measured by degree."
1. First appeared in Mind, April 1908, and reprinted in Bradley's Essays on Truth and Reality (Oxford 1914).
Bradley spotlights "the mistakes which follow from any attempt to sunder the human world, to divide things from ideas, to identify the real with matter of fact, or to set apart somewhere by itself a superior realm of earnest."
Also, "The world of reality, we may say in a word, is the world of values, and values are not judged absolutely but are everywhere measured by degree."
1. First appeared in Mind, April 1908, and reprinted in Bradley's Essays on Truth and Reality (Oxford 1914).
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