Sentence examples for idealism until from inspiring English sources

In section 372 of The Gay Science, entitled precisely "Why we are not idealists," he writes: "In sum: all philosophical idealism until now was something like an illness, except where, as in the case of Plato, it was the caution of an overabundant and dangerous health, the fear of overpowerful senses, the shrewdness of a shrewd Socratic" (KSA 3. 623..

We will later see that the tendency to preserve both the impulse to idealism and the conviction that there is something more than ordinary human minds by positing a more than human mind is characteristic of many versions of idealism until the end of its glory days at the beginning of the twentieth century.

At Oxford, some influence of idealism continued until World War II in the person of Robin George Collingwood, who was influenced by Hegel and the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce but was a very original thinker.

A Life Unravels Before the Voices, Idealism and Courage Until it was ruined by the voices in his head, the life of Dennis Sweeney had been shaped by idealism and by his own considerable courage.

Her Ellen brings to mind a slew of young women I knew in college — intense, coffee-fueled conversationalists whose aggressive idealism was sexy until you perceived the self-centeredness of it.

At this moment, a new path was opened to Froebel, and succumbing to an almost messianic idealism that remained unflagging until his death, he recognized and accepted his destiny.

He is disinherited by his father who accuses him of shaming the family but falls in love with an engineer's daughter who finds his idealism exciting, that is until they marry and her true feelings for the peasants they are surrounded by become known.

Macdonald persuasively suggests that Bob Marley's idealism and boyish innocence survived until the very end.

Idealism temporarily triumphed over commerce, until McKim's great building, across several troubled decades, became an increasingly rundown emblem of urban glory and gave way to an architecture of gloomy pragmatism and moneyed interests.

Ortega was one of these thinkers, although he did not express explicitly any dissatisfaction with what he perceived as the solipsistic implications of the transcendental idealism in the latter work until twelve years later.

The relationship of Collingwood's philosophy to Italian idealism has been relatively under-explored until recently (Connelly 1995; Peters 2013).