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	Idealism - LoveToKnow 1911
		The foundations of idealism in the modern sense were laid by the thinkers who sought breathing room for mind and will in a deeper analysis of the relations of the subject to the world that it knows.
		The conflict of idealism with these two lines of criticism - the accusation of subjectivism on the one side of intellectualism and rigid objectivism on the other - may be said to have constituted the history of Anglo-Saxon philosophy during the first decade of the 20th century.
		On the other hand, idealism would be false to itself if it interpreted the unity which it thus seeks to establish in any sense that is incompatible with the validity of moral distinctions and human responsibility in the fullest sense of the term.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Idealism (7157 words)

	Idealism - Psychology Wiki - A Wikia wiki
		As a basis for cosmology, or an approach to understanding the existence, idealism is often contrasted with materialism, both belonging to the class of monist as opposed to dualist or pluralist ontologies.
		Schopenhauer's history is an account of the concept of the "ideal" in its meaning as "ideas in a subject's mind." In this sense, "ideal" means "ideational" or "existing in the mind as an image." He does not refer to the other meaning of "ideal" as being qualities of the highest perfection and excellence.
		In general parlance, "idealism" or "idealist" is also used to describe a person having high ideals, sometimes with the connotation that those ideals are unrealisable or at odds with "practical" life.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Idealism (2465 words)

	Actual Idealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Actual Idealism was a form of idealism developed by Giovanni Gentile that grew into a 'grounded' idealism contrasting the Transcendental Idealism of Immanuel Kant and the Absolute idealism of Georg Hegel.
		Actual Idealism holds that it is the act of thinking as percipience, not creative thought as imagination, which defines reality.
		Actual Idealism therefore rejects the Hegelian 'Absolute' as being a presupposition unprovable to the mind, unless considered to be synonymous with what's known or the totality of the act of thinking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Actual_Idealism (994 words)

	German Idealism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		For the philosopher German idealism usually means the philosophy of Kant and his immediate followers, while for the historian of literature it may seem little more than the personality of Goethe; and it is not usual to characterize the literary aspect of the movement as neo-humanism.
		His task was to analyze the reason that dominates the actual world of history, to bring to light its various purposes, combine them into a totality representing the absolute divine purpose of the universe, the summum bonum, and to show that the power to realize this ideal lies in religious consciousness.
		In his view the ideal society would be one based on the insight and activity of the educated, and on the rational education of youth, and realizing in its organization the natural and fundamental ethical ideas.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/g/germidea.htm (3619 words)

	The Practical Idealism of John Dewey by Ziniewicz
		Practical idealism is an attempt to combine appreciation of real facts and acts with an imaginative vision of their possibilities; it is not meant to be a retreat from facts to imagination.
		The ideal of democracy, which embraces these ideals, has to be newly projected on the basis of new scientific evidence as well as a reading of the movements of new social conditions.
		It is the only ideal appropriate to a way of life devoted to open-minded inquiry and assessment of facts, unprejudiced consideration of alternatives, and flexible in the face of physical and cultural change.
	www.fred.net /tzaka/demointr.html (2521 words)

	Josiah Royce (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		What is needed is a definite, actual individual being that exists "in an absolutely final form." Royce thus agrees with critical rationalism in saying that a true idea is one that may be fulfilled or validated by a possible experience.
		It is this being, the actual individual, and not the mere possible experience of it, that is the object of knowledge and "the essential nature of Being" (Royce 1976 [1899-1901], 348).
		Finally, beyond the actual communities that we directly encounter in life there is the ideal "Beloved Community" of all those who would be fully dedicated to the cause of loyalty, truth and reality itself.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/royce (8162 words)

	Florian Znaniecki: Cultural Reality: Chapter 1: Culturism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The defeat of idealism, in any sphere of investigation, was not due to a logical inferiority of its general philosophical doctrine, but simply to the fact that it failed to develop a large and continually growing body of positive 'empirical knowledge based on idealistic premises.
		Not only is a new ideal needed to satisfy the demand for a harmonization and modification of our complex and scattered intellectual activities, but the time has come when, for all actual human purposes, the most intense reflection must be concentrated on the field of culture.
		Idealism continues to treat evolution as a merely phenomenal matter and tries still to find some immovable ground above the moving stream without seeing that to have any significance at all in the development of knowledge it must remain in the stream and move with it: that is, it must cease to be idealism.
	spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Znaniecki/1919/1919_1.html (4054 words)

	20th WCP: Borges, the Apologist for Idealism
		It is also an interpretation of the complex, and yet to be defined philosophical concept of "idealism." Although left unacknowledged by critics, this is one of Borges's significant accomplishments — yet, one that exposes him to severe criticisms from supporters of orthodox views.
		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.
		In his "Refutation of Idealism" Kant does indeed take Berkeley as the paradigm of "dogmatic idealism." Space turns, according to Kant, into "something which is in itself impossible," consequently the things existing in it are nothing but "imaginary entities" (CPR 244).
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Lati/LatiMart.htm (4633 words)

	Kenneth Burke's "Realism and Idealism" (1923) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was no mere accident that Hegel was the official philosopher of a rising Prussianism, or that idealism has been flourishing during this last century which marks the highest concentration point of the nationalist spirit.
		For idealism, with its strong emphasis on the creative will, brings about an abnormal, almost superstitious, emphasis on the value of the individual, the national entity, man triumphant.
		Optimistic idealism may be defined as idealism which has not thought itself out sufficiently to become pessimistic idealism.
	www.missouri.edu /~engjnc/burke/realism_idealism.html (1253 words)

	Metaphysical Idealism
		Actually, the idealistic concept of the material world is logically compatible with the scientific view of matter.
		Idealism does not say that the natural world is unreal; it does not say that the laws of nature are mere inventions of the human mind; it does not say we can change the world magically by thinking differently.
		According to subjective idealism, matter is a construct based on the mental contents of individual observers, like you and me. According to absolute idealism, there is a single underlying mental or spiritual thing, or principle, whose mental activity and content underpins the existence of the entire material world.
	www.eskimo.com /~msharlow/idealism.htm (2809 words)

	The Politics of Transcendence
		The contrast in the dialogue between life and politics as historically known and the alleged ideal is related to a methodological tension between relying on the facts of actual human experience and discounting or setting them aside.
		The main purpose of the Platonic ideal is to found justice in the soul of the individual.
		Ideals that distract us from moral opportunities that are actually available damage both theory and practice.
	www.nhinet.org /ryn12-2.htm (7477 words)

	Selected Correspondence: Mr. Uppaluri G. Krishnamurti
		of the pristine purity of the actual – and, as you currently have a feeling of weightlessness (aka a lightness of being), I would also suggest your present on-going experience is an after-effect of feeling the same a couple of months ago whilst ingesting psilocybin on a daily basis over a two-week period...
		Uppaluri Krishnamurti has it that nothing exists outside of his mind (consciousness gives rise to the universe) whereas the on-going experiencing for this flesh and blood body is that the mind does not exist outside of time and space and matter (the universe gives rise to consciousness).
		The actualism method (‘how am I experiencing this moment of being alive’) is a method specifically designed to bring about a direct experience of the actual...
	www.actualfreedom.com.au /richard/selectedcorrespondence/sc-ug2.htm (11245 words)

	20th WCP: Epistemological Positions in the Light of Truth Approximation
		As with the position of ontological idealism, the position of epistemological relativism is hard to take seriously in some straightforward sense, despite the fact that it seems to be fashionable in certain, so-called postmodern, circles.
		For instance, when one takes the existence of atoms in the actual world seriously, which goes beyond empiricism, it is also defensible to take the existence of physically possible atoms seriously, even if they do not (yet) exist in the actual world.
		According to this extreme form of realism, the challenge of science is to uncover the ideal conceptualization, that is, to discover and extend the ideal vocabulary, on the basis of which perfect observational, referential and theoretical truths can be formulated.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Scie/ScieKuip.htm (3491 words)

	Realistic Idealism
		In discussions of "idealism" and "realism" two very different questions are often confused or, when distinguished, still not correctly and clearly related to each other.
		It appears, then, that the idealistic interpretation of reality as essentially relative to or consisting of mind, experience, awareness, that is, psychicalistic idealism, is entirely compatible with a realistic view of the independence of the particular object and the dependence of the particular subject, in each subject-object situation.
		In the subject we have a principle of unity or wholeness, of actual singularity which is yet not the unity of an ineffable bare identity, but admits of a variety of qualities and relations and components.
	www.hyattcarter.com /realistic_idealism.htm (5728 words)

	Refutation of idealism; Phenomena and noumena
		In contrast with Kant's own idealism, transcendental idealism, material idealism claims that the "matter" of appearance, that which corresponds to sensation, derives from the subject; for this reason, these idealisms are forms of skepticism about the existence of an external, physical world.
		Berkeley's "dogmatic" idealism, which Kant takes to imply that the world of physical objects is illusory or imaginary.
		Descartes's "skeptical" or "problematic" idealism, which treats the existence of physical objects as less certain than the fact of one's own existence as a thinking being, to which each person has privileged access and which each person can ascertain with certainty simply by reflection on his own act of thinking.
	www.uwm.edu /~sensat/courses/453kant/notes06.html (1078 words)

	Idealism vs. Realism in Raw Food Diets
		Actual experience with 100% raw vegan diets shows that they may assist healing and health in the short run, but can be problematic in the long run.
		In those replies, idealism was romanticized and depicted as being a major factor in the advance of human societies.
		The ends justify the means, if you let idealism blind you to the harm you are causing with hostility, and/or by attacking cooked food eaters, those who eat meat, or those with different raw food diets.
	www.beyondveg.com /billings-t/ideal-real/idealism-realism-1a.shtml (2724 words)

	Lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Here, I was actually finally _angered_ by her quick dismissal of All Things Good and ready to argue it with her.
		She tried to explain to me that she was worried about my continual idealism and that I needed to come down to reality and that "it's time" to recognize that she is right, she's had more experience with life, after all, and Things Like That Don't Happen To People Like Us.
		She was "shaken" because I had, for the first, actually refuted some words of Elderly Wisdom she was trying to pass onto me. I had, effectively, Challenged her and the things she knows she has no sound reasoning to defend.
	www.plethora.net /~gypsy/lesson.html (1782 words)

	October 2006
		It also proposes two ideal types: meaning-cultures (in which the interpretation of meaning is of paramount concern, so much so that the thinghood of things is often obscured), and presence-cultures (in which capturing the tangibility of things is of utmost importance).
		In the modern period, linguistic utterance has typically come to be used for, and to be interpreted as, the way by which meaning rather than presence is expressed, thereby creating a gap between language and presence.
		I argue that actualism should primarily be interpreted as an ontology of a historical reality; it expresses the view that reality is history.
	www.wesleyan.edu /histjrnl/archives/oct06.html (1683 words)

	The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
		But whether true or false, idealism is not to be dismissed as obviously absurd.
		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.
	www.dickran.net /books/russell/chapter4.html (2449 words)

	Objectivism versus Monism: The False Options of Materialism & Idealism
		It is clear that whether one agrees or disagrees with Objectivism, it cannot be placed in either the idealist or materialist camp, and stands as a radical departure against both.
		The charge that Objectivism, explicitly or implicitly, is a philosophy of materialism generally comes from those who favor some variant of idealism, the belief that everything in the Universe is ultimately reducible to idea or spirit and that material objects are sort of condensed spirit.
		Marx was a student of the philosophy of Hegel, who was an arch idealist who believed that man and history are the result of the working out of a disembodied Idea as it evolves through a dialectic process.
	www.laissez-fairerepublic.com /MONISM.htm (3624 words)

	Idealism - MSN Encarta
		Idealism, in philosophy, a theory of reality and of knowledge that attributes to consciousness, or the immaterial mind, a primary role in the...
		Philosophy: The nature of Spirit may be understood by a…
		Philosophy: What is rational is actual and what is…
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575556/Idealism.html (95 words)

	Idealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Idealism is a class of positions in ontology and epistemology.
		Idealism as an epistemological position asserts that everything we experience is of a mental nature.
		Idealism is based on the root word "Ideal," meaning a perfect form of, and is also described as a belief in perfect forms of virtue, truth, and the absolute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Idealism (5583 words)

	The German Ideology
		The way in which men produce their means of subsistence depends first of all on the nature of the actual means of subsistence they find in existence and have to reproduce.
		Its premises are men, not in any fantastic isolation and rigidity, but in their actual, empirically perceptible process of development under definite conditions.
		As soon as this active life-process is described, history ceases to be a collection of dead facts as it is with the empiricists (themselves still abstract), or an imagined activity of imagined subjects, as with the idealists.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm (5425 words)

	Adventures in Philosophy: A Brief History of Political Philosophy
		Clemenceau was not only the most striking and vigorous of the French statesmen of his time, a formidable enemy, and genius of invective; he was also sincerely and fanatically devoted to the ideals of reason and freedom, which he regarded as compatible with his stern patriotism.
		Deeply convinced of the truth of Christianity, Soloviev asserted the idea of "Godmanhood," bequeathed to humanity, and the ideal of universal theocracy, which he conceived as absolutely incompatible with the claims of the Orthodox Church.
		He has been a pronounced advocate of the philosophy of culture which he describes as a condition of society in which there is a harmonious balance of material and spiritual values and a harmonious ideal spurring the community's activities to a convergence of all efforts toward the attainment of that ideal.
	radicalacademy.com /adiphilpolitics4.htm (4407 words)

	Uncertainty and Idealism
		Heisenberg defends the standpoint of formal logic and idealism, and therefore, inevitably arrives at the conclusion that the contradictory phenomena at the subatomic level cannot be comprehended by human thought at all.
		In relation to this question, it is important to clarify one of Hegel’s most famous (or notorious) sayings: "What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational." (20) At first sight, this statement seems mystifying, and also reactionary, since it seems to imply that all that is exists is rational, and therefore justified.
		This leads to endless confusion, and is actually a kind of trick which serves to justify all kinds of absurd and arbitrary ideas.
	www.marxist.com /science/uncertaintyandidealism.html (11338 words)

	patrissimo: mistakes of libertarian idealism
		In my next entry, I'll pinpoint idealism as the general problem (libertarian idealism is just one example).
		Libertarians sneer at socialists for ignoring aspects of reality that don't fit their ideals, like the fact that people won't work very hard if decreased effort yields the same reward.
		What actually helps the world is finding systems which work better given all the foibles of actual humans and all the foibles of actual systems.
	patrissimo.livejournal.com /40636.html (1025 words)

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