Appearance and Reality

Appearance and Reality (1893; second edition 1897) is a book by the English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley, in which the author, influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, argues that things like qualities and relations, space and time, matter and motion, selves and bodies, and activity and change, are all contradictory and unreal appearances. Bradley goes on to describe the ultimate reality to which these appearances belong; and he calls this reality the Absolute. It is the main statement of Bradley's metaphysics and is considered his most important book.