Howison's personal idealism  was also called "California Personalism" by others to distinguish it from the "Boston Personalism" which was of Bowne. Howison maintained that both impersonal, monistic idealism and materialism run contrary to the experience of moral freedom. To deny freedom to pursue truth, beauty, and "benignant love" is to undermine every profound human venture, including science, morality, and philosophy. Personalistic idealists Borden Parker Bowne and Edgar S. Brightman and realistic personal theist Saint Thomas Aquinas address a core issue, namely that of dependence upon an infinite personal God.
Who was an exponent of so-called "Boston Personalism"? What was the term given to the personal idealism of Howison? Who is a notable realistic personal theist? What issue do both Aquinas and Brightman discuss? What sort of freedom did Howison believe was incompatible with materialism?