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What does idealism mean?

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Noun
  1. The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
  2. The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
  3. (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
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The controversy in metaphysics between idealism and realism is that, for the idealist, nothing exists independently of the mind.
The first important school of thought to arise out of Kantian philosophy was the subjective idealism of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.
Maclean retained his early idealism and lived a life fully in accord with his Communist principles, eschewing all privileges.
Even when people are motivated by challenge and idealism, pay and recognition remain important.
The amalgam of American idealism and rags-to-riches dreams is irresistible.
Later, I shall deal with issues of idealism and realism in African film productions.

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