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    idealism


    1. then, but the idealism of the fifties is what draws them in


    2. The story must be written of idealism at its best and worst of times


    3. Nonsense! (If, however, this an accurate characterization, just what does that tell us about Enlightenment philosophers?) His form of German idealism, involving as it must, complete subservience to the State, as manifest in the spirit of history, goes beyond the boundary of the civilized and prepares the way for Karl Marx


    4. That said, what has gone wrong with our culture over the past half century that causes so many of us to excuse excesses of the left as mere idealism? (Remember, ideas, not ideals


    5. Initially because of the idealism of youth, but more lately because


    6. Youthful Idealism has always had its differences with Pragmatic Realism


    7. Modern Society is in the throes of a revolutionary Revolt of Conscience; the solitary by-product of moral and intellectual parochialism that is gradually revealing itself in the vested self-interest(s) and manners of unbridled Individualism that has undermined equalitarian idealism, that once defined the national culture, by rendering every individual the sole arbiter of his or her own conscience and ensuing choices without giving proper pause to how such choices may otherwise impact, for better or for worse, other individuals or to a transcendent authority that each must (inevitably) be held accountable; that is to say, whose (social) consequences existing outside the provincial boundaries of that individual‘s (own) estate are no longer limited by (moral) restraint or prescribed rules of moral and ethical conduct but conditioned rather by circumventing designs contrary to the proportionate interests of a well-ordered society


    8. As a graying sixties generation quickly approaches middle age, sustained by a wistful desire for the ―good old days‖ that typified its youthful idealism, many can‘t help reflecting on those formative years without forlorn regret over a progeny whose slackening awareness and indifference to social ―causes‖ and other immediate issues that continue to trouble our society has given way to self-gratifying designs, like amassing ―huge‖ fortunes, for example


    9. Ian O‘Connor, champion of the oppressed and self-styled Stephen Vincent Benet of the Gannett sports pages, might have properly considered a career more in line with the principles of serious journalism rather than (seemingly) wasting his ―enormous‖ literary talents and high-minded idealism as a sports columnist


    10. His thoughtless indifference to the momentous progress made in this area (race relations) over the past forty years or more, extemporaneously betrays an intellectual dishonesty steeped in naiveté and misplaced idealism that has lost much of its (historical) relevance in modern society; aside from the rantings of racial factions that stand to profit by re-opening old wounds which Mr

    11. The NKVD sergeant, if that were truly his rank, was not particularly adept at concealing what he was doing, and Colling played his part by trying to give the impression that he himself was possessed of the hopeless naivete of socialist idealism


    12. Had there been any value in all that idealism: those purposes to sing and to create beauty in every aspect of my life? Opera was my great love, but instead of getting to sing the music, I’d been given the plots of several operas to live


    13. “That bit of romantic idealism died with Kaidu


    14. I found an inn for the night and told Carlotta about Yquingare and Kikthawenund and how they had tried to enlighten me away from my youthful ill-advised idealism


    15. The first Thanksgiving may have been a celebration of the triumph of free enterprise capitalism over collective idealism, long before Karl Marx wrote to repudiate such a system


    16. holographic idealism, and whatever theory may come


    17. ultimately to return to the country of her projected idealism, North Korea


    18. So much for whatever idealism remained in his opinion of men


    19. (2) idealism - the belief that reality consists of the concepts that underlie the facts of experience;


    20. Idealism is an ontology (theory of reality) that claims what actually exists consists of the concepts

    21. One of the most enlightening lessons in idealism is to "deconstruct" the social institutions in


    22. This section on Ontology covers the three archetypes of being, namely Materialism, Idealism,


    23. In the case of Idealism, ask yourself “Can I eat ideas, or sit on them? Will they provide shelter


    24. Pragmatism and idealism never walk together by the hand, neither in families nor in wars


    25. ‘Your idealism does you credit, Zeno, but you are totally wrong and I agree absolutely with Jarek


    26. youthful idealism not infected the ranks yet?‖


    27. He is learning how to plan for the achievement of a higher and distant goal of idealism while he toils earnestly for the attainment of a nearer and immediate goal of necessity


    28. This brings idealism to the career, as we said


    29. Good judgment dictates that such a rule of living should be interpreted in consonance with the highest idealism embodied in the nobility of profound self-respect


    30. Another reason for their generosity is their religious and philosophical idealism, derived from the higher mind

    31. Wisdom embraces both the fact and the ideal and therefore saves its devotees from both of those barren extremes of philosophy -- the man whose idealism excludes facts and the materialist who is devoid of spiritual outlook


    32. Such a concept constitutes the achievement of the experience of the idealism of the supreme and the ultimate


    33. 11 Now are we truly forsaking the lures of the known order of existence while we unreservedly dedicate our quest to the lures of the unknown and unexplored order of the existence of a future life of adventure in the spirit worlds of the higher idealism of divine reality


    34. And we seek for those symbols of meaning wherewith to convey to our fellow men these concepts of the reality of the idealism of the religion of Jesus, and we will not cease to pray for that day when all mankind shall be thrilled by the communal vision of this supreme truth


    35. The legend of Akivasha was so old, and among the evil tales told of her ran a thread of beauty and idealism, of everlasting youth


    36. Psychology and idealism are not the equivalent of religious reality


    37. message was a mixture of idealism and hubris


    38. On graduation day in April 1927, she was one of two valedictorians, where she showed her activism, idealism, commitment to her religion and social justice


    39. She sensed that he had fought so many wars not out of idealism, as everyone had thought, nor had he renounced a certain victory because of fatigue, as every-one had thought, but that he had won and lost for the same reason, pure and sinful pride


    40. His book is about family, education, idealism, optimism and above all, love

    41. His alpine idealism at your age


    42. FRIDAY: You possess a starry-eyed idealism, freshness, and naivete


    43. It influences spiritual will, inspiration, idealism, spiritual knowledge and wisdom It is our connection with the universe


    44. death had tempered his idealism with a little commonsense


    45. This was simply to advance Apartheid idealism and ambitions within the borders of South Africa


    46. There was excitement in the air, something exceptional about the idealism, about our


    47. Buddhism ha no God to show sins and therefore but a self-hallucinatory projections, satanic religions arises from the depth of man’s unsconscious mind then shaped by the conscious mind as expressions of desires, guilt, inhibition or idealism


    48. Ego destroys idealism


    49. Idealism does not exist in the human mind, because the elements created by the soul


    50. The spirit has idealism being connected to the mind of God











































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    Synonyms for "idealism"

    high-mindedness idealism noble-mindedness optimism

    "idealism" definitions

    (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality


    impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are


    elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued