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Abstract
Kant conceived of idealism as the view that only minds exist, as did other eighteenth-century philosophers, both those who accepted idealism under some name and those who rejected it. In view of this definition, Kant denied that he was an idealist, and was right to do so. But there is another tradition in idealism, going back to Plato, according to which matter as well as mind exists, but mind or the mind-like is more real or more valuable than matter. Kant’s idealism is part of this tradition, although he comes to it on practical rather than theoretical grounds.
