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idealism

n.

Devotion to high principles
perfectionism, high-mindedness, aspiration, sense of duty, humanitarianism, meliorism, utopianism, romanticism, quixotism, knight-errantry, impracticality, idealization, principle, virtue, conscience, philosophy.
The conception of the universe as idea
Platonism, metaphysical idealism, epistemological idealism, metaphysics, immaterialism, immateriality, subjective idealism, Hegelianism, Transcendentalism, Fichteism.

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Here then characteristically intuitionalism occupies a half-way house between empiricism, with its appeal to real given fact, and idealism, with its appeal to necessity.
Idealism in one way or other supposes that mind is more real than matter.
Such vicissitudes were the ordinary lot of the Jews for several centuries, and it was their own inner life - the pure life of the home, the idealism of the synagogue, and the belief in ultimate Messianic redemption - that saved them from utter demoralization and despair.
If we answer " Yes " to that question, we pass on from intuitionalism to idealism - an idealism not on the lines of Berkeley (matter does not exist) but of Plato (things A obey an ascertainable rational necessity).
With all its idealism, Greek thought had difficulty in regarding rational necessity as absolute master of the physical world.

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