Idealism vs Materialism

The cluster revolves around philosophical debates on the nature of mind, thoughts, and reality, contrasting idealism and materialism while referencing Descartes, Plato, Aristotle, Berkeley, and related concepts like monism and solipsism.

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iamdave Jan 21, 2019 View on HN

The ghost of Descartes slightly disagrees ;)

thewakalix Apr 1, 2021 View on HN

That's a matter of philosophical disagreement (ferex, Platonism).

sp332 Feb 4, 2014 View on HN

Your philosophy is a couple thousand years stale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes

CalRobert Dec 4, 2023 View on HN

Perhaps you're discovering monism

monktastic1 Sep 13, 2017 View on HN

Is this not a form of Idealism?

jibal Sep 4, 2025 View on HN

You might want to look at https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/46w6qp/comme...andhttps://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/NoM%20-%205.p...

jfb Apr 12, 2021 View on HN

Descartes and his duality strike again.

ironmagma May 23, 2022 View on HN

Not true at all. It's something philosophers and mathematicians have explored.Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlQaP4c_Jxk

daseiner1 Jun 10, 2025 View on HN

You're essentially describing Idealism vs Materialism.Related is Nietzsche thinking he was the one to overturn Plato. Heidegger thought that Nietzsche was instead the logical conclusion of metaphysics. Heidegger's project was about "returning to the Question of Being" which he thought was first occluded by Plato, so he is in strong conversation with the Pre-Socratics. Deleuze has an interesting critique of Plato built on flipping the latter's hierarchy of model and co

rapferreira Aug 1, 2021 View on HN

Are you kidding? Go read Hegel's phenomonology of mind and get back to me on that