Though it's difficult to deny the prevailing sense of waste in Brando's career and life, he must be credited with acting on his idealism, supporting the rights of disenfranchised groups, whether advocating for the plight of Native Americans, or lending his presence and support to the Civil Rights movement.
Indeed, one can perhaps better appreciate the value of Natorp's reading of Plato if one does not think of it as support for Marburg idealism as such, but simply as an ingenious attempt to make sense of the relation of ideal form and empirical particular, an attempt that merely employs the logic of categorial functions as a hypothetical springboard.
We so live now in the era of the bottom line and worshiping the fatted calf that people who have a bent towards idealism and passion don't find much support for that around them.
It is possible that the importance of parental support for DTTBs, perhaps in admiring their idealism or being fearful for their safety, may have been underestimated.
America's support for democracy and human rights goes beyond idealism - it's a matter of national security.
When his followers were blocked by the police they knelt in prayer behind a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe.The idealism of Chávez's movement and the fasts he endured to win support for striking farmworkers caught the public imagination.
"It's probably true that there" — in the support for the war in Iraq — "you have a rediscovery of idealism.
Even though the loyalists gained support for their cause by promising to expel all foreigners, pragmatism quickly displaced impractical idealism.
Fourth, he must tilt American policy back towards a more realistic balance between naive idealism and cynical pragmatism, without either alienating autocratic allies such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia or ditching America's support for democracy and human rights.
Worried more by the Iraqi quagmire, the perceived threat of Iran and evidence of increased support for Islamist parties that are assumed to be hostile to the West, American diplomacy appears to have dropped idealism in favour of realism.
