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

Players themselves were caught up in the strife and idealism of the era, Mr. Gittlitz shows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

"With his rigour, his courage and his idealism, he embodied a lofty idea of the Republic," said President Emmanuel Macron.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

As Mrie recounts, Syrian democratic idealism curdled over time into infighting and worse.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

In the late sixties, civil rights activists might have harnessed the great idealism that the southern movement inspired in Americans.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez