Glossary
2-3REALISM (Libra)
Similarly, when it comes to action, we have to translate our purposes into realities with the help of material things and forces. We are, therefore, referred back to the outer world. The most extreme spiritualist -- or rather, the thinker who through his absolute idealism appears as extreme spiritualist -- is Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He attempts to derive the whole edifice of the world from the "I". What he has actually accomplished is a magnificent thought-picture of the world, without any content of experience. As little as it is possible for the materialist to argue the spirit away, just as little is it possible for the spiritualist to argue away the outer world of matter.
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