(September 15, 2015 at 9:30 am)Cato Wrote: As entertaining as these types of conversations might be, it is the sort that gives philosophy a bad reputation. It's a circle jerk. Even if all of existence was simply mind, we would still have to navigate existence as if we were surrounded by material and energy obeying physical laws compounded by the fact that some other collections of matter similar to ourselves have 'other minds'.exactly right. idealism doesn't change how you can interact with reality. but it will change your metaphysical and possibly your religious beliefs about reality. I would argue idealism implies theism just as much as materialism implies atheism.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo