Timeline Library

HomeKnowledge RealityMetaphysicsIdealism

Idealism

© 2026 Timeline Library

Yogācāra (Cittamātra) Buddhist idealism in India and East Asia (c. 4th–9th century CE)

325 - 900

Xuanxue (Neo-Daoist) metaphysical idealism in Six Dynasties China (c. 220–589 CE)

220 - 589

Russian religious and metaphysical idealism: Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, and successors (c. 1874–1948)

1874 - 1948

Plotinus and Neoplatonism's metaphysical system (c. 204–529 CE)

204 - 533

Plato's Theory of Forms and its ancient reception (c. 427–200 BCE)

387 BCE - 268 BCE

Josiah Royce and the American idealist movement (c. 1876–1916)

1878 - 1916

Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre and subjective idealism (1794–1814)

1794 - 1814

Immanuel Kant: development and debates over transcendental idealism (1781–1797)

1781 - 1797

George Berkeley's immaterialism and its controversies (1710–1753)

1709 - 1753

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's nature-philosophy and later idealism (1798–1854)

1797 - 1854

British Absolute Idealism: F.H. Bradley, T.H. Green, and the British school (c. 1865–1916)

1874 - 1916

Advaita Vedanta under Adi Śaṅkara and medieval commentators (c. 8th–12th century)

700 - 1200