In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense, idealism emphasizes how human ideas—especially beliefs and values—shape society. As an ontological doctrine, idealism goes further, asserting that all entities are composed of mind or spirit. Idealism thus rejects physicalist and dualist theories that fail to ascribe priority to the mind. 

The earliest extant arguments that the world of experience is grounded in the mental derive from India and Greece. The Hindu idealists in India and the Greek Neoplatonists gave panentheistic arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the ground or true nature of reality. In contrast, the Yogācāra school, which arose within Mahayana Buddhism in India in the 4th century CE, based its "mind-only" idealism to a greater extent on phenomenological analyses of personal experience. This turn toward the subjective anticipated empiricists such as George Berkeley, who revived idealism in 18th-century Europe by employing skeptical arguments against materialism. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What does Idealism not accept?
2. What is unacceptale to Idealists?
3. What do Idealists reject?
Q2:
1. What does idealism assert ontologically?
2. What is the ontological assertion of idealism?
3. What ontology does idealism subscribe to?
Q3:
1. What is the source of the earliest arguments for experience being mental?
2. Where did the first arguments that experience is mental come about?
3. In what countries did people first start saying that experience is mental?
Q4:
1. What is the epistemological manifestation of idealism?
2. What epistemology does idealism subscribe to?
3. What are the epistemological leanings of idealism?
Q5:
1. What is idealism epistemologically skeptical of?
2. What sort of epistemological skepticism do idealists subscribe to?
3. What sort of skepticism makes up the epistemology of idealists?
Q6:
1. What is the source of the Yogācāra school school?
2. From where did the Yogācāra school arise?
3. Where did the Yogācāra school come about?
Q7:
1. What was the name of an empiricist?
2. Who subscribed to empiricism?
3. Who was a believer in empiricism?
Q8:
1. During what period did George Berkley bring idealism back to Europe?
2. When did George Berkeley's European revival of idealism occur?
3. When did George Berkley bring idealism back to Europe?
Q9:
1. What all is contained within idealism?
2. What does idealism consist of?
3. What are the elements that make up the idea of idealism?
Q10:
1. Does idealism have an impact on society?
2. Is society affected by idealism?
3. Does idealism speak about how society is influenced?
Q11:
1. Who was the source of panentheistic arguments for consciousness?
2. Who came out with panentheistic arguments for consciousness?
3. Where did panentheistic arguments for consciousness come from?
