idealism
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Based on these challenges, Koch suggests it may be necessary to revisit older philosophical ideas like idealism or panpsychism.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
People might, however, remember a moving or historic Oscar speech — a statement from a winner that inspires the exact kind of idealism the show is apparently so intent on bringing to its viewers.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026
For Rosenzweig, World War I forced a reckoning with the habits of philosophy itself—above all, its tendency to smooth away individuals for the sake of idealism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
At its centre is Anand "Annie" Grover, an endearing fifth-year student suspended between idealism and chronic distraction.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
It was simply that Shaker Heights, despite its idealism, was a pragmatic place, and she did not know how to be anything else.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Vocabulary lists containing idealism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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"The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton
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Cesar Chavez's Commonwealth Club Address (1984)
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