idealism

(i-dé’a-lizm), n. [= F. idéalisme Sp. Pg. It. idealismo = D. G. idealism us = Dan. ideal is me = Sw. idealism, ¢ Ll. ideal is, ideal: see ideal and-ism.] 1. The metaphysical doctrine that the real is of the nature of thought; the doctrine that all reality is in its nature psychical. It is our cognizance of the succe ivene or transitorine of feelings that makes us object intuitively to any idealism which is understood to imply an identification of the realities of the world with the feelings of men. T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, § 37. It is the very e ence of the Kantian idealism that objects are not there till they are thought, E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p, 327. 2. Pursuit of the ideal; the act or practice of idealizing; especially, imaginative treatment of subjects; a striving after ideal beauty, truth, realize by combining resents one idealism, that by of of ena thoughts. plied —Berkeleian ley ideas ity and pirical that mediate doctrine and subjective 1814), individual world, F. tween solute absolute laws tations.—Transcendental manuel conceptions merely themselves, to solutely idealist Pg. ideal is, holds of is only 2. a 3. dreamer.—Cosmothetic we nal tence term note idealistic 1. doctrine longing imagining istic ideality ideal i dad idealitet, alis, or in ment, object; it unity. 2. imagination, sentiment 8. science ities Transcendental dent every time tain the something dependent. idealization lisation The act idealize ppr. = = -ize.] accordance body trait. in 2974 justice, ete.—3. In art, the effort to the highest type of any natural object eliminating all its imperfect elements and the perfect into a whole which rep- Nature, not as she is exhibited in any example, but as she might be.—Apsolute the doctrine of G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), things derive their reality from their being made thought, which has an objective existence as a part the divine absolute idea (this being the organic unity all thought), and that things are not merely phenom to us, but are of their inner nature phenomena or The term is by English writers sometimes apto any dogmatic idealism, such as that of Berkeley. idealism, the doctrine of Bishop Berke- (1685-1753), that the souls of men and of God, and the in them, are the only existences, and that the real of external things consists only in their permanence coherency, Also called theistic, phenomenal, and emidealism.— Cosmothetic idealism, the doctrine the external world exists, but that we have no imknowledge of it.—Egotistical idealism, the that ideas are modes of the human mind itself, are destitute of external prototypes.— Fichtean or idealism, the doctrine of J. G. Fichte (1762- that the universal subject or ego (not the ego of an person) is the source of the object, the external or non-ego.— Objective idealism, the doctrine of W. J. von Schelling (1775-1854), that the relation be the subject and the object of thought is one of a bid entity. It supposes that all things exist in the reason, that matter is extinct mind, and that the of physics are the same as those of mental represenidealism, the doctrine of Im- Kant (1724-1804), that the things to which the of reality, actuality, etc., are applicable are phenomena or appearances, and not things-in or things as they are apart from their relation the thinker. Things-in-themselves are held to be a bun knowable. (i-dé’a-list), n. [= F. idéaliste = Sp. It. idealist a = D. Dan. Sw. idealist, ¢ LL. ideal: see ideal and -ist.] 1. One who some form of the philosophical doctrine idealism: opposed to realist. All are idealists, to whom the world of sense and time a delusion and snare, and who regard the Idea as the substance, J. I’, Clarke, Ten Great Religions, v. § 3. One who pursues or dwells upon the ideal; seeker after the highest beauty or good.— An imaginative, unpractical person; a day idealist, one who holds that have no immediate intuition of a real non-ego or exterworld, but who neverthele maintains that its exisis known inferentially by its effects in sensation. The was introduced by Sir W. Hamilton (Reid’s Works, ©), (i-dé-a-lis’tik), a. [« idealist + -ic.] Relating or pertaining to the philosophical of idealism or to idealists.—2. Beto an ideal or ideals; striving for or ideal perfection or good: as, ideal poetry or art; idealistic dreams. (1-dé-al/i-ti), n. [= F. idéalité = Sp. = It. ideal it a = G. idealitdt = Dan. Sw.