Brunton was a proponent of a doctrine of " Mentalism ", or " Oriental Mentalism " to distinguish it from subjective idealism of the western tradition.
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"Hoon " is easily understood as a philosophical poem, lending itself to interpretation as an exercise in the philosophy of solipsism or subjective idealism such as Fichte's.
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Berkeley, partly in reaction to Locke, also attempted to reintroduce an " immaterialism " into early modern philosophy ( later referred to as " subjective idealism " by others ).
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In the end, lacking an acknowledgement of an aspect of " reality " that goes beyond mere " possibilities of sensation ", such a position leads to a version of subjective idealism.
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That is, if existence depends on experience, as subjective idealism maintains, and if one's consciousness were to stop existing, then the rest of the universe would stop existing as well.
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Subjective idealism is featured prominently in the Norwegian novel " Sophie's World ", in which " Sophie's world " exists in fact only in the pages of a book.
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The 2nd edition ( 1787 ) contained a " Refutation of Idealism " to distinguish his transcendental idealism from Descartes's Sceptical Idealism and Berkeley's anti-realist strain of Subjective Idealism.
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Subjective idealism made its mark in Europe in the 18th-century writings of George Berkeley, who argued that the idea of mind-independent reality is incoherent, concluding that the world consists of the minds of humans and of God.
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Based on a philosophy of subjective idealism, metaphysical solipsists maintain that the self is the only existing reality and that all other reality, including the external world and other persons, are representations of that self, and have no independent existence.
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He is remembered for advancing the theory of immaterialism, later known as subjective idealism, which posited that individuals can only directly know sensations and ideas of objects, not abstractions such as " matter, " so that it is impossible for something to exist without being perceived.
