Idealism
<p>A species of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_idealism" title="Absolute idealism">absolute idealism</a>, <b>British idealism</b> was a philosophical movement that was influential in Britain from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The leading figures in the movement were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hill_Green" title="Thomas Hill Green">T. H. Green</a> (1836–1882), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.H.Bradley" title="F. H. Bradley">F. H. Bradley</a> (1846–1924), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bosanquet%28philosopher%29" title="Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher)">Bernard Bosanquet</a> (1848–1923). They were succeeded by the second generation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.M.E.McTaggart" title="J. M. E. McTaggart">J. M. E. McTaggart</a> (1866–1925), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Joachim" title="Harold Joachim">H. H. Joachim</a> (1868–1938), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Muirhead" title="John Henry Muirhead">J. H. Muirhead</a> (1855–1940), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.G.Collingwood" title="R. G. Collingwood">R. G. Collingwood</a> (1889-1943). The last major figure in the tradition was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Reginald_Gilchrist_Mure" title="Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist Mure">G. R. G. Mure</a> (1893–1979). Doctrines of early British idealism so provoked the young Cambridge philosophers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.E.Moore" title="G. E. Moore">G. E. Moore</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> such that they began a new philosophical tradition, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy" title="Analytic philosophy">analytic philosophy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_idealism#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></p>