客观唯心主义是唯心主义哲学的两种基本形式中的一种；指把某种“客观”精神（“理念”、“绝对精神”、“天理”等）说成是世界的本原，认为 现实的物质世界都是这种“客观”精神的产物。神学唯心主义也是一种客观唯心主义。 客观唯心主义的主要代表人物有：

Objective idealism is an idealistic metaphysics that postulates that there is in an important sense only one perceiver, and that this perceiver is one with that which is perceived. One important advocate of such a metaphysics, Josiah Royce, wrote that he was indifferent "whether anybody calls all this Theism or Pantheism". Plato is regarded as one of the earliest representatives of objective idealism. It is distinct from the subjective idealism of George Berkeley, and it abandons the thing-in-itself of Kant's dualism.