Another word for idealism
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Noun
Devotion to high principles
- The study of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning.
- A system of thought based on or involving such study:
- The study of the theoretical underpinnings of a particular field or discipline:
- An awareness of morality in regard to one's behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally:
- A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement:
- Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct:
- Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.
- An example or kind of moral excellence:
- Chastity, especially in a woman.
- A basic truth, law, or assumption:
- A rule or standard, especially of good behavior:
- The collectivity of moral or ethical standards or judgments:
- The act or process of idealizing.
- The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
- The state or quality of being impractical.
- Something which is impractical.
- the behavior or action of a knight-errant
- quixotic behavior
- quixotic character or practice
- a quixotic act or idea
- An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 1700s and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.
- Romantic quality or spirit in thought, expression, or action.
- The ideals or principles of a utopian; idealistic and impractical social theory.
- The belief that the human condition can be improved through concerted effort.
- The belief that there is an inherent tendency toward progress or improvement in the human condition.
- the beliefs or actions of a humanitarian
- the doctrine that humanity's chief or only obligations are to its temporal welfare
- the doctrine that a human being is capable of perfection without divine aid
- Expulsion of breath in speech.
- The pronunciation of a consonant with an aspirate.
- A speech sound produced with an aspirate.
- The characteristic of being high-minded.
- A propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
- A belief in certain religions that moral or spiritual perfection can be achieved before the soul has passed into the afterlife.
The conception of the universe as idea
- A literary and philosophical movement arising in 19th-century New England, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller and asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends empirical and scientific reality and is knowable through intuition.
- The quality or state of being transcendental.
- The monist, idealist philosophy of Hegel in which the dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis is used as an analytic tool in order to approach a higher unity or a new thesis.
- The theory that nature has no objective existence independent of the minds that perceive it.
- The state or quality of being immaterial.
- Something immaterial.
- A metaphysical doctrine denying the existence of matter.
- The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value.
- The theoretical or first principles of a particular discipline:
- A priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment.
- The philosophy of Plato, especially insofar as it asserts ideal forms as an absolute and eternal reality of which the phenomena of the world are an imperfect and transitory reflection.
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