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

Oscar, meanwhile, his idealism reawakened, sees an opportunity for an underprivileged kid with raw talent to escape her meager existence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 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