Aristotle and Plato debatingPiotr Jaroszyński
Among the many disputes still taking place in philosophy today, there is one particularly important one. It is the dispute: realism or idealism? As Étienne Gilson points out, in everyday life every normal person behaves like a realist and thinks he or she is a realist (including philosophers). However, at the level of philosophical reflection, the problem begins to get complicated, and idealists are on the increase. In a strictly philosophical sense, there may even be more adherents of idealism than realists, although much depends, of course, on how one understands realism and how one understands idealism.
