0 the belief that your ideals can be achieved, often when this does not seem likely to others: --
She never lost her youthful idealism and campaigned for just causes all her life.
1 belief in principles: --
The decision to cross the border was often based on a mix of calculated self-interest, idealism, fear and coercion.
I argue that the evidence cited by the authors in support of idealism actually favors realism.
Identity is a hall of mirrors which parallels other epistemological debates in archaeology, all of which revolve around the divide between realism and idealism.
Accusations of philosophical idealism which had been previously raised against such theor ies as relativistic cosmology or cybernetics disappeared from public discourse.
Indeed, they may be seen as 'myths' that govern much of our idealism concerning one-culture-for-all and one-festivalfor-all.
Idealism as the prism through which policy was approached entailed that non-idealist thought became neglected.
No conceptualisation and understanding get us beyond the mental realm, which according to idealism is the only realm in which we can operate.
However, recognizing that children are idealistic, a responsible society will ensure that this idealism is not exploited or manipulated.
