And which of these works must be qualified as realistic, which as idealistic, if realism signifies being occupied with inferior persons and conditions, idealism with those that are superior?
On the other hand, princes and priests often let us see how easily theoretical idealism goes with practical materialism, or hedonism.
I am unable to follow him when he transfers his idealism from practical to theoretical questions, and urges the erroneous theory of knowledge derived from it in opposition to monism and realism.
The chief error of this theoretical idealism is the assumption that the soul is a peculiar, immaterial being, immortal and endowed with a priori knowledge.
In view of the great influence that Schiller's idealism has had in the spread of Kant's practical moral philosophy, we may for a moment consider it in contrast with the realistic views of Goethe.
As realism generally coincides with monism, soidealism is usually identical with dualism.
They ignore the vast progress made by modern biology, especially in the science of evolution; and they endeavor to meet the difficulties which it creates for their transcendental idealism by a sort of verbal gymnastic and sophistry.
The imposing personality of Wiseman contained much to attract and conciliate a poet like Browning, whose visionary idealism went along with so unaffected a relish for the world and the talents which succeed there.
To all these masters of idealism Browning's vision of Love owed something of its intensity and of its range.
Browning had his full portion of the romantic idealism which, under the twofold stimulus of literary and political revolution, had animated the poetry of the previous generation.
The harsh and rugged fanaticisms, the splendid frivolities, of the seventeenth century, fade and lose substance in an atmosphere charged with idealism and self-consciousness.
Neither character is drawn with the power of Strafford, but the play is largely built upon the same contrasts between personal devotion and political expediency, the untutored idealism of youth and the ruses or rigidity of age.
But his idealism was not potent and pure enough either to control the realist suggestions of his strong senses and energetic temperament, or to interpret them in its own terms.
The idealism of his nature had to force its way through perplexities and errors, beguiled by the distractions and baffled by the duties of his chosen career.
The idealism which made the Empire a possibility is passing away.
There was always a strong vein of idealism and romance among Hohenzollerns, the vein of a Lohengrin, a Tancred, or some mediæval knight.
The old German idealism was being pushed aside by materialism and commercialism, and the thoughts of the nation were turning from problems of philosophy and art to problems of practical science and experiment.
And as there is very little idealism there is very little imagination .
And with these few bald statements she stopped, for she knew that under her daughter's youthful idealism there was the solid rock of common sense, that behind her impetuosity there was her father's own instinct for justice.
I'm done forever with the kind of romance and idealism we were brought up on.
The idealism of the eighteenth century was not reformative and humanistic, but revolutionary and humanitarian.
Philosophically this has been a century of reaction against the idealism of the preceding age; it places the individual, rather than the idea, in the foregound.
Entirely consistent with this idealism is the nature of his love, ardent, but etherial, "übersinnlich.
The Count, sitting near the stove between Marianna and Gambara, was in the very position which the mad musician thought most desirable, with sensuousness on one side and idealism on the other.
The letters that have by chance escaped destruction show very plainly a transition from pureidealism to the most intense sensualism.
If you imagine that you are to live in the idealism of a mountain-top experience you will find yourself coming short of it most of the time.
Idealism has its place in life, but it must not close our eyes to the practical side of life.
He was eaten up with pessimism, a natural consequence of his excessive idealism which had been so cruelly disappointed.
It was thanks to such sophistries as his that the idealism of young men was thrown into the arena.
If the association ever loses the idealism which is still its backbone it will be a political machine of much power; it seems likely to be for the present a decided force in the direction of civic reform.
While the value of any movement depends upon the success with which its practical details are worked out, yet in the final analysis the idealism of a movement is the mainspring of its vitality.
This new world was eager to put its idealism into immediate practical living.
From this time, however, such idealism in politics as may have existed in the United States gradually disappeared.
Like the Brook Farm experiment the Seneca Falls Convention was the outcome of a great wave of idealism sweeping over the world.
Some account of the story of A Life for the Tsar will be of interest to those who have not yet seen the opera, for the passionate idealism of the subject still appeals to every patriotic Russian.
Broadly speaking, they stand respectively for lyrical idealism as opposed to dramatic realism in Russian opera.
May it long retain its lofty idealismand sane vigour!
And nothing carries the spirit of this American idealism more effectively to the far corners of the earth than the American Peace Corps.
As the idealism of our youth has served world peace, so can it serve the domestic tranquility.
Today, when we are the richest and strongest nation in the world, let it not be recorded that we lack the moral and spiritualidealism which made us the hope of the world at the time of our birth.
Even his youth and idealism and ignorance of public affairs could not blind him to the apparently inevitable consequences.
But now a new generation was springing up, with its leaven of hope and idealism and its intuitive faith in honesty.
Thus Hegelian idealism claims to be the philosophical counterpart of the central dogma of Christianity.
This idealism of political theory is illustrated by the sketch of the Ethical Life which he drew up about 1802.
Of the other idealism there are no doubt abundant traces in the language of Kant: and they were greedily fastened on by Schopenhauer.
This was the idealism which Kant taught and Fichte promoted.
He did not fall in cheerfully with the idealism which seemed ready to dispense with a soul, or which justified its acceptance of empirical reality by referring to the fundamental unity of the function of judgment.
The homely yet soaring idealism of the true American will always answer to the word, "Hitch your wagon to a star.
His own system of proscription restored to the Whig party not a little of the idealism it had lost; and Burke came to supply them with a philosophy.
There is, moreover, in Burke a Platonic idealism which made him, like later thinkers of the school, regard existing difficulties with something akin to complacent benevolence.
Certainly no one will be inclined to claim for the eighteenth century the spiritual idealism of the seventeenth, though Law and Bishop Wilson and the Wesleyan revival will make us generalize with caution.
These considerations throw light upon the proper meaning of (practical) idealismand of mechanism.
The problem is especially acute for a presentative realism because idealism has made precisely this ubiquity of relationship its axiom, its short-cut.
I still believe (what I believed when I wrote the essays) that under the influence of idealism valuable analyses and formulations of the work of reflective thought, in its relation to securing knowledge of objects, were executed.
Idealism in action does not seem to be anything except an explicit recognition of just the implications we have been considering.
Idealism noted that the difference may properly be ascribed to the intervention of thinking--that thought is what makes the difference.
At that time (as has been noted) idealismwas in practical command of the philosophic field in both England and this country; the logics in vogue were profoundly influenced by Kantian and post-Kantian thought.
On the supposition of the ubiquity of the relation, realism and idealism exhaust the alternatives; if the ubiquity of the relation is a myth, both doctrines are unreal, because there is no problem of which they are the solution.
Social idealism of revolutionary crowds is a mechanism of compensation and escape for suppressed desires.
The social idealism of revolutionary crowds is very significant for our view of the crowd-mind.
The social idealism has well been called a dream, for that is just what it is, the daydream of the ages.
In justice to idealism it should be added that this is by no means the only species of Rationalism which may lead to such psychic results.
A revolutionary crowd, with all its lofty idealism about liberty, is commonly just as intolerant as a reactionary crowd.
But even these directly homicidal crowds invariably represent themselves as motivated by moralidealism and righteous indignation.
When this idealism and enthusiasm disappear from a movement, when its impetus is lost, when it passes into a littleness of opportunism, into an emptiness of small politics, it dies like a body without life.
But on the other side, we must not confuseidealism with fantasy or utopism.
This spirit must be reformed; faith instead of scepticism, idealism instead of mammonism, self-sacrifice instead of selfishness, and social spirit instead of individualism must again come into the heart of man.
It is in the idealism of their rendering of the body of man that the Greeks have surpassed all other peoples and left an imperishable record.
A simple kind of idealismmay be found in athletic art.
This is a work of modern idealism produced by similar processes to those to which we owe the excellence of Greek athletic sculpture.
Hence the intrinsic and inexhaustible idealism of Greek sculpture, to which I will presently return.
VII The seventh lamp, which goes as naturally with idealism as care and patience go with naturalism, is joy, joie de vivre.
He may accept the pragmatism of James, the idealism of Royce, or even what is called neo realism.
