Can someone break down Gentiles actual idealism to me? From what I gather he says that reality and consciousness are inseparable from one another and that nothing exists outside of thought? Does he mean this literally, as in reality ceases to exist without the existence of human thought? Or is he saying that as humans we ascribe meaning and attributes to things, and without human thought these things lack the attributes which give them meaning, thus ceasing to exist? Also, what are your general thoughts on his philosophy?
>>18537282>Does he mean this literally, as in reality ceases to exist without the existence of human thought? Or is he saying that as humans we ascribe meaning and attributes to things, and without human thought these things lack the attributes which give them meaning, thus ceasing to exist?THE LATTER.>Also, what are your general thoughts on his philosophy?«ACTUAL IDEALISM» IS REAL DRIVEL.
>>18537282Dialectical Materialism is superior
>>18537282These sorts of philosophical worldviews are speculative at best, and should be treated as software-esque drugs for the brain, like getting immersed in a good book. The way you think definitely affects how you will perceive reality, and if you make use of that as a heuristic, you might witness different ideas or motivations that you wouldn't have encountered otherwise, with a strictly rational or agnostic view.
>>18537319Dialectical materialism is categorically sophistry as a philosophy, more like a religion of miserly retards.
>>18537299Silence, elotero
>>18537282Recently, the philosopher Emanuele Severino is keen to highlight "the essential solidarity between actualism and techno-science; on the other hand, the capacity of actualism to carry over the entire Western tradition: this means that Gentile's thought is destined to be recognized as one of the most decisive features of world culture".[40]
