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| | IDEALISM - LoveToKnow Article on IDEALISM |
 | | Taking for granted the unity of the world idealism is committed to interpret it as spiritual as a unity of spirits. | | | Modern like ancient idealism came into being as a correction of the view that threatened to resol-ke the world of matter and mind alike into the changing manifestations of some single non-spiritual force or substance. |
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| | Idealism Encyclopedia Article @ aNewLow.com (A New Low) |
| | The theology of Christian Science is explicitly idealist: it teaches that all that exists is God and God's ideas; that the world as it appears to the senses is a distortion of the underlying spiritual reality; and that the distorted appearance can be healed through prayer. | | | A variant of oriental idealism is Buddhist idealism. | | | More accurately, Idealism is based on the root word "Ideal," meaning a perfect form of, and is most accurately described as a belief in perfect forms of virtue, truth, and the absolute. |
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http://www.anewlow.com/encyclopedia/Idealism
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| | German Idealism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Thus, from Kant's idealism came a new analysis of religion, illuminating with a new light the problems of culture. | | | Realizing the inadequacy of their philosophy to meet practical needs, they now sought an ethical and religious ideal which should unify the concrete content of spiritual life and at the same time be a necessary deduction from the metaphysical background of existence. | | | The basis of the aesthetic-ethical movement was Kant transcendental idealism. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/germidea.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Idealism |
| | It is true that Cartesianism is in line with the genuine idealism of the earlier schools, inasmuch as it postulates God, thought, and spatial reality. | | | This older idealism teaches, not that there is One-All, but that there is an alpha and omega, i.e. | | | According to him the visible world is simply a copy of a supersensible, intelligible, ideal world, and consequently "things" are but the impress stamped on reality by that which is of a higher, spiritual nature. |
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| | 20th WCP: Borges, the Apologist for Idealism |
| | If the world is mind-dependent, as idealism claims, if existence is to be related to actual or possible perception, then one could legitimately conclude that immaterialism is the logical outcome of the idealist's claims. | | | The implication here coincides with one of the fundamental tenets underlying the story of "Tlön": once the belief in a world of objects — portrayed in common language by the existence of substantives — is destroyed, human praxis, and language itself cease to exist. | | | Borges avoids arguing whether their doctrine falls under the denomination of "immaterialism," "phenomenalism" or "idealism." He seems either to deliberately ignore this scholarly dispute or to go beyond it in an effort to let the texts speak for themselves. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Lati/LatiMart.htm
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| | HUMANISM, IDEALISM, MATERIALISM |
| | Idealism in one way or another gives primacy to mind (leaving out theistic idealism, which asserts God as most fundamental) over body. | | | A second argument of idealism is based on the nature of knowledge. | | | The father of Western idealism was Parmenides of Elea (sixth century B.C.), who argued that all things are one--a unity underlying appearance--and that motion and change are unreal. |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DPF.CHAP32.HTM
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| | Bloomsbury.com - Research centre |
| | Sacred images aimed to show the ideal (both 'good' qualities and the 'bad' ones which were to be purged by true devotion and belief); secular images--unless they were concerned to show idealized versions of such qualities as leadership in a prince or benevolence in a patron--tended to be realistic views of the here-and-now. | | | Thus, the second form of Idealism, according to which objects are ideas in God's mind, avoids the problems of the first version. | | | The fourth use of 'idealism', in the fine arts, originated in ancient Athens. |
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http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ARC/detail.asp?entryid=102239&bid=2
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| | Internal Realism: Transcendental Idealism? |
| | The argument I shall be focussing on is what might be called the "argument from reference." Putnam also has arguments from vagueness, from the nature of truth, and others; I will not discuss these. | | | If this is correct, then the world we talk about is mind-dependent, and idealism in the broad sense I am concerned with is true. | | | I do not mean to suggest that Putnam is committed to this argument, at least in the unsophisticated form in which I have just phrased it. |
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http://www.trinity.edu/cbrown/papers/internalrealism.html
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| | Metaphysical Idealism |
| | But absolute idealism, in and of itself, does not require one to believe in any particular religion or to be a mystic. | | | Like other types of idealism, personal idealism acknowledges the existence of the observable world, and regards that world as dependent upon the activity of minds. | | | The philosopher usually regarded as the founder of subjective idealism is George Berkeley, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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| | DISF - Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede Idealism |
| | Among the implications of idealism one must not forget the criticism of religion brought by the theology of the so-called “Hegelian left”. | | | For the latter author, Christianity is the ideal religion towards which the natural religiosity of humanity necessarily tends, first with simple and imperfect forms, and then with progressively more evolved forms (cf. | | | The criticism would consist of claiming that religion and theology are nothing other than anthropology in disguise: the divine essence would be, all things considered, a projection of the Self, of human essence, conceptualized and venerated as if it were other-than-us. |
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| | AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: Idealism in America |
| | Royce's idealism gave rise to important ideas for the philosophy of religion and ethics. | | | For more than thirty years, Bowne was professor of philosophy at Boston University where, although the spiritual atmosphere of religious traditionalism was agreeable to him, he endeavored to and succeeded in liberalizing religious thought. | | | The infinity of mutually interpreting and intercommunicating selves constitutes the absolute self, the absolute community, which is, as the whole, a conscious unity of all the parts. |
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| | Realistic Idealism |
| | I wish now to contend that not only are the realistic theses compatible with idealism, but they furnish a basis for a cogent idealistic argument. | | | And if, to take the other horn of the dilemma, there is no reference of one thing to another, then the world has no real connectedness, and is no world, no real succession of cause-effect at all. | | | It is there held that there must be something universally nonrelative or absolute; but that this something is not simply identical with the supreme being or with God, and is no actual subject. |
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http://www.hyattcarter.com/realistic_idealism.htm
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| | Practical Idealism: Present Policy in Historical Perspective |
| | But also, in America, religious idealism was a major force. | | | And if they had lived several thousand years ago they would have derided Moses when he came from the Mountain with the Ten Commandments. | | | Both schools of thought could thrive in a world that sought peace through the mutual assurance of destruction. |
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| | Contra Rand & Idealism |
| | Ryan would have us believe that it was Rand's "fear of religion" that was the principle culprit behind her philosophistry. | | | Rand, however, shared many of these very same false ideals, despite the fact that she abhorred both idealism and God. | | | Ryan, in his zeal to find reasons to support his idealistic pantheism, has placed his faith in certain presuppositions of knowledge that cannot withstand the light of criticism. |
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| | : Practical Idealism unites protest of China, globalization, Mid East |
| | That message seems to be lost on Washington, as the number of matters to protest has multiplied, and "a crisis of domestic dissent" is reflected on the streets today. | | | As a result, Practical Idealism will not satisfy the purists in the "peace now" crowd. | | | I am now inviting yourself, plus any activists and voters of your acquaintance, to discover or re-discover Practical Idealism, with specific materials on the Web. |
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http://colorado.indymedia.org/newswire/display/2461/index.php
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| | CHAPTER I |
| | To return to the main line of argument, it is only too clear that if we mean by 'dogmatic idealism' with respect to material objeots the view that they cannot have existence per se, then Kant is a dogmatic idealist of the first water. | | | And it is Kant's answer to this question which is central to the contrast he draws between his idealism and the idealisms he calls 'dogmatic' and 'problematic.' | | | Little needs to be said at this stage of the argument about the 'problematic idealism' Kant attributes to Descartes. |
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| | The Practical Idealism of John Dewey by Ziniewicz |
| | Ideals are "superior" to facts, only in the sense that they anticipate the possibility of new unity and harmony. | | | Contemplation of ideals means looking at objects of imagination, not eternal truths. | | | John Dewey's practical idealism is characterized by a "down-to-earth" faith in the possibilities of human experience and an unflinching optimism about the boundless capacities of ordinary human beings. |
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| | Chapter VI. Idealism |
| | The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith, is this, that it presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind. | | | The belief that it appears only, is an afterthought, but with culture, this faith will as surely arise on the mind as did the first. | | | The perception of real affinities between events, (that is to say, of ideal affinities, for those only are real,) enables the poet thus to make free with the most imposing forms and phenomena of the world, and to assert the predominance of the soul. |
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| | Idealism To You - Forums powered by WWWThreads |
| | I believe we all have the capacity to go beyond ourselves and create beauty in the world, no matter who we are or what circumstances we come from. | | | "pursuit of or belief in noble ideals, principles, and values. | | | Idealism: the belief that an ordinary person is capable of extraordinary things |
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| | USS Clueless - Teleology and Solipsism |
| | I wrote a lot of background about this a couple of days ago.) Please note that p-idealism is not directly related to the normal usage of the word "idealism", though there's a tendency for believers in p-idealism to seem to be idealists in the normal sense of "one who seeks perfection as an attainable goal". | | | Philosophical idealism permitted them to believe that they (the upper classes) were wiser and more virtuous than the masses. | | | P-idealism is actually a fundamental belief about the nature of the universe, which presumes that feelings and thought are primary, and that physical experience is driven by them. |
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http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2004/01/TeleologyandSolipsism.shtml
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| | Idealism |
| | Step 7: Walk away or quit any people, places, or things in your life spheres who continue to be a threat to your survival or existence even after you have tempered your idealism. | | | What irrational beliefs or perfectionistic tendencies are at the root of your problematic ideals in this life sphere? | | | Fifth: Identify the irrational beliefs, the should's, must do's, or perfectionistic tendencies at the base of each of your ideals which create the problems for you. |
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http://www.coping.org/control/idealism.htm
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| | John Kennedy's Vietnam Rhetoric |
| | Ernest Bormann explains that the Puritans may have originated the American rhetorical tradition of "romantic pragmatism." According to Bormann, the Puritans defined themselves as God's chosen people and urged one another to act in accordance with this transcendent principle. | | | In sum, idealistic discourse deals with enduring principles or defined ideas, while pragmatic discourse concerns itself with practicalities. | | | Kennedy stressed ideals in his public speeches, but ideals also were present in his statements during interviews and news conferences. |
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| | Realistic Idealism, Philosophy based on evidence |
| | Realistic Idealism is not liberal; yet, there is no doctrine. | | | In spite of these debatable variations we can rest assured that Jesus Christ highlighted the concepts of love and compassion. | | | This is the basis of Realistic Idealism which now builds on the addition of the more recent knowledge and understanding. |
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| | The Seattle Times: Opinion: Democrats must engage GOP on the battlefield of ideals |
| | The engagement should not be about morals and religious theology. | | | • Ideals — Definition: beliefs; Synonyms: ethics, morals, principles, standards, values. | | | We need to remind the American people that being an American is about freedom and the God-given right of all people to make decisions for themselves and for their families. |
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| | idealism on Encyclopedia.com |
| | In ethics it implies a view of life in which the predominant forces are spiritual and the aim is perfection. | | | Immanuel Kant developed a critical or transcendental idealism in which the phenomenal world, constituted by the human understanding, stands opposed to a world of things-in-themselves. | | | Plato conceived a world in which eternal ideas constituted reality, of which the ordinary world of experience is a shadow. |
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| | George Berkeley [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | There is less agreement on Berkeley's argumentative approach to idealism and immaterialism and on the role of some of his specific arguments. | | | For what created intelligence will pretend to conceive, that which God cannot cause to be? | | | Given the hypothesis that the number of minimum visibles seen is constant and the same among individual humans and other creatures (NTV §§80-81), it follows that the objects seen when using a microscope are not the same as those seen by the naked eye (NTV §85; cf. |
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| | idealism from FOLDOC |
| | Just as materialism in metaphysics is often linked with subjectivism in epistemology, idealism is often linked with intrinsicism in epistemology (though epistemological intrinsicism is sometimes also called, confusingly, idealism, since intrinsicism holds that we literally perceive universals or ideas). | | | Obviously, spiritualism is similar to idealism, but spiritualism tends to be used to refer more to religious, supernatural conceptions of reality, rather than to philosophical theories like those of Plato or Hegel. | | | Berkeley defended his "immaterialism" on purely empiricist grounds, while Kant and Fichte arrived at theirs by transcendental arguments. |
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| | CHAPTER II |
| | We shall understand by it the doctrine that whatever exists, or at any rate whatever can be known to exist, must be in some sense mental. | | | The grounds on which idealism is advocated are generally grounds derived from the theory of knowledge, that is to say, from a discussion of the conditions which things must satisfy in order that we may be able to know them. | | | He proved first, by arguments which were largely valid, that our sense-data cannot be supposed to have an existence independent of us, but must be, in part at least, 'in' the mind, in the sense that their existence would not continue if there were no seeing or hearing or touching or smelling or tasting. |
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| | Shubhayan's Quotation Guide(TM) Idealism Quotes |
| | It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. | | | But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. | | | It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else. |
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| | Transcendental Idealism |
| | This might work on the basis of Spinoza's metaphysics, where my existence is God's existence, but God's knoweldge far transcends mine. | | | The obscurity of Kant when it comes to his theory of empirical realism and transcendental idealism is largely due to his terminology and the difficulties of reconciling parts of his theory. | | | If "transcendental" means, epistemically, "independent of experience," but "idealism" means, ontologically, "dependent on subjective (my) existence," then "transcendental idealism" would have to mean knowledge of objects that are dependent on my existence but independent of my experience. |
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http://www.meta-religion.com/Philosophy/Biography/Immanuel_Kant/transcendental_idealism.htm
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| | Idealism |
| | As the self-conscious awareness of the Absolute, Hegel's philosophy unifies the sensibility of art and the objectivication of religion by regarding the dialectical logic of reason as the ultimate structure of reality. | | | As we have already seen, Hegel's view of the world is determinedly historical; he believed that history itself (involving another triad, of original/reflective/philosophical history) exhibits the growth of self-consciousness in the Absolute, the process of development by means of which the Weltgeist comes to know itself. | | | The study of physics, as an exploration of the necessary operation of the Absolute considered in one way, then, will be perfectly parallel to the science of knowledge that examines the necessary structure of self-conscious awareness that is the Absolute considered in another way. |
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| | The Radical Academy Glossary of Philosophical Terms |
| | A metaphysical doctrine which combines the principles of idealism and realism. | | | The logical identity of things based upon the similarity of their accidents. | | | The doctrine that the mind imposes its own a priori forms of synthesis upon the unorganized and unrelated impressions which it receives from an unknown and unknowable thing-in-itself, or noumenon, so that the entire content of perception and thought consists of subjective phenomena. |
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| | USS Clueless - Three way struggle |
| | Update 20040106: Pixy Misa offers a superb explanation of the difference between realism and idealism. | | | One of the ways in which this all ultimately manifested was in the basic philosophy of idealism, which posits that the mind is the essential and central force in the universe. | | | And politically speaking, idealism was popular because it did such a good job of explaining why it was natural and inevitable that those who ruled should be the rulers. |
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| | Lawrence Lessig |
| | It took me too long to finish this book. | | | That comment is as depressing as is the book. | | | Funny, some might call this blog is “an interesting lesson in how idealism and rationality can become naive [in Academia].” |
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| | Definition of idealism - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | 2 a : the practice of forming ideals or living under their influence b : something that is idealized | | | For More Information on "idealism" go to Britannica.com | | | Get the Top 10 Search Results for "idealism" |
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| | Amazon.ca: German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801: Books |
| | For those who want to understand Idealism, it means that works by other authors should be read (or at the very least consulted, if only to appraise Beiser's claims to be authoritative, something which is evidenced throughout by his strident tone), and, as with all real scholarship, articles as well. | | | The first section of the book, which spans 200 pages, is about Kant. | | | Between Kant and Hegel he finds a movement away from cosmic subjectivity and toward greater realism and naturalism, with one form of idealism succeeding another as each proved an inadequate basis for explaining the reality of the external world and the place of the self in nature. |
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| | Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Idealism. |
| | In fact, that there is no real, but all is mere ideal. | | | & idealism, taught by Hegel, supposes there is no such thing as phenomena; that mind, through the senses, creates its own world. | | | & idealism, taught by Fechte (2 syl.), supposes the object (say a tree) and the image of it on the mind is all one. |
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| | Idealism- Oldest system of philosophy known to man |
| | It is possible to separate Idealism into different schools, but for our purposes we shall be content to identify only the most general assumptions of the Idealists in metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory, without regard to the idiosyncrasies of the various schools. | | | Idealism is the oldest system of philosophy known to man. Its origins go back to ancient India in the East, and to Plato in the West. | | | In the philosophic sense, Idealism is a system that emphasizes the pre-eminent importance of mind, soul, or spirit. |
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| | Idealism articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Aurora, Ill. His cultural interpretation of American literature was an expression of his belief in democratic idealism. | | | idealism IDEALISM [idealism] the attitude that places special value on ideas and ideals as products of the mind, in comparison with the world as perceived through the senses. | | | His idealism found expression in his History of Hungary and the Magyars (1853) and won him the job of correspondent (1853-55) to the London Daily News during the Crimean War. |
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| | Idealism |
| | Indeed, the idealist focuses on the world created by the mind. | | | The values which are recognized and encouraged by idealists are considered by them to be absolutes, things which “basically do not change from generation to generation, or from society to society”—things like goodness and beauty (Webb et al., 2000, p. | | | Idealism is often considered the oldest philosophy of our Western culture. |
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| | Gravity Control Idealism: Reverse Engineering UFO Type Craft |
| | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | Gravity Control Idealism attempts to understand the underlyiing dynamics of Universe, whereby it might be possible to control gravity and electromagnetism in a manner allowing us to provide for the needs of our planet. | | | It seems everyone knows about Area 51, but no one seems sure what they do there, so we hear a lot of stories about reverse engineering downed alien space craft. |
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http://gravityc-idealism.blogspot.com/2005/11/reverse-engineering-ufo-type-craft.html
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| | Idealism quotes |
| | “Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. | | | The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. | | | “It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. |
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| | BlackNews.com - Joseph C. Phillips: American Idealism |
| | Forty years after King weaved our idealism into poetry, men and women all across the country are building businesses that create jobs and wealth; they are giving their time and money to support churches, charities, culture, arts and education in their communities. | | | Our idealism is the source of our can do spirit; it is the foundation of our charity. | | | Happily, the principles of our founding served as a vision of where we hoped to go. |
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| | the tendency to represent things in an ideal form, or as they might or should be rather than as they are, with emphasis on values. |
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| | Technorati Tag: idealism |
| | Posts tagged Idealism per day for the last 30 days. | | | I have been thinking some today about my idealism and where it leads, in a way. | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged idealism. |
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| | Community |
| | What distinguishes our approach in this area is that we help people define not merely their interests and assets, but the broad ideals which they are prepared to work together to achieve. | | | Our communities, in turn, are where we test the abstract principles of liberty and justice against our own experience in our neighborhoods, on the job, and in dealing with government. | | | Civic Idealists build community--in our neighborhoods, on the job, and among the diverse groups that coexist in America all over the country. |
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| | British Idealism |
| | In the fields of metaphysics and epistemology, ethics and political thought, it generates significant controversy and disagreement. | | | Idealism - past and present - continues to stimulate fruitful discussion among philosophers. | | | The Thoemmes Press Idealism series publishes works which find in Idealism new features of interest and a perspective which is germane to our own philosophical concerns. |
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| | Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough--you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. | | | People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. | | | When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. |
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