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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

Thomas Hobbes: Materialist Philosophy and 'Leviathan' (1620–1679)

1588 - 1679

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

1874 - 1948

Property Dualism in Analytic Philosophy (1950s–2000s)

1956 - 2002

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

Marx and Engels: Historical Materialism and the Materialist Conception of History (1844–1895)

1844 - 1895

Ludwig Feuerbach's Materialist Critique of Religion (1830s–1860s)

1830 - 1866

Julien Offray de La Mettrie and 'Man a Machine' (1748–1751)

1733 - 1752

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

1878 - 1916

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

1794 - 1814

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