The Idealist Path

British Idealism, flourishing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, took the Hegelian insight that mind is constitutive of reality and developed it in an English-speaking context. F.H. Bradley argued that relations are contradictory and that only the Absolute is fully real; T.H. Green grounded political philosophy in the common good as the expression of a social self. Together they made Oxford the centre of idealist philosophy in the English-speaking world.