The transmission

The Teachers

1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.

1,020 teachers  ·  42 traditions

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19 teachers

Parmenides
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Parmenides
Being is one and changeless
c. 515-450 BCE
Baruch Spinoza
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Baruch Spinoza
Substance monism; God-or-Nature
1632-1677
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Monads; pre-established harmony
1646-1716
George Berkeley
Idealism & Process Philosophy
George Berkeley
Esse est percipi; subjective idealism
1685-1753
Immanuel Kant
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Immanuel Kant
Transcendental idealism; phenomena/noumena
1724-1804
William Blake
Idealism & Process Philosophy
William Blake
Imagination as the real and eternal world
1757-1827
G.W.F. Hegel
Idealism & Process Philosophy
G.W.F. Hegel
Absolute idealism; dialectic of Spirit
1770-1831
F.W.J. Schelling
Idealism & Process Philosophy
F.W.J. Schelling
Nature-philosophy; identity of mind and nature
1775-1854
Arthur Schopenhauer
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Arthur Schopenhauer
World as Will and Representation
1788-1860
Gustav Fechner
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Gustav Fechner
Psychophysics; panpsychist day-view
1801-1887
Wilhelm Wundt
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Wilhelm Wundt
He carried the study of the mind out of the philosopher's armchair and into the laboratory, making consciousne…
1832–1920
Charles Sanders Peirce
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Charles Sanders Peirce
Objective idealism; synechism; agapism
1839-1914
Eduard von Hartmann
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Eduard von Hartmann
He elevated the Unconscious from a psychological quirk to the hidden metaphysical will steering the whole of r…
1842–1906
Josiah Royce
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Josiah Royce
Absolute idealism; the World-Self
1855-1916
Henri Bergson
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Henri Bergson
Duration; élan vital; intuition
1859-1941
Edmund Husserl
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Edmund Husserl
Phenomenology; structures of consciousness
1859-1938
Alfred North Whitehead
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Alfred North Whitehead
Process philosophy; actual occasions of experience
1861-1947
Thomas Nagel
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Thomas Nagel
The irreducibility of subjective experience
b. 1937
Idealism & Process Philosophy
Paavo Pylkkanen
Active information and the implicate order in mind
b. 1959