観かん念ねん論ろん

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Meanings

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noun

idealism

philosophy

Philosophical term referring to the view that reality is fundamentally mental or idea-based. Often contrasted with 実在論 (realism).

Kanji

観outlook, look, appearance
念wish, sense, idea
論argument, discourse

Related words

実じつ在ざい論ろん
Realism, the philosophical opposite of idealism, holding that reality exists independently of the mind.
唯ゆい物ぶつ論ろん
Materialism, which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, often contrasted with idealism.

Opposites

唯ゆい物ぶつ論ろん
観念論 holds that reality is fundamentally mental or ideal, the direct philosophical opposite of 唯物論, which holds that matter is fundamental.

Word family

Built from

観かん念ねん+論ろん

Etymology

Compound of 観念 (idea, notion) and 論 (theory, discourse). The term was coined in the Meiji period as a translation of Western philosophical 'idealism'.

絶ぜっ対たい的てき観かん念ねん論ろん

absolute idealism

言げん語ご学がく的てき観かん念ねん論ろん

linguistic conceptualism

超ちょう越えつ論ろん的てき観かん念ねん論ろん

transcendental idealism