Sentence examples for pure idealism from inspiring English sources
His pure idealism is measured by his response to a student during a discussion of the Holocaust.
Like most decisions in politics, the Lib Dems' partnership agreement with the Conservatives is the usual admixture of pure idealism and sullied realpolitik.
But manifestos are pure idealism, and in Ms. Vincent's thought-provoking, sometimes-tedious, sometimes-profound deconstruction of the making and performing of a dance piece, there is only messy reality and disappointment.
Pure idealism of this sort is unusual in American politics, however, and the jaded men of the commentariat sat back and waited for the system to punish the wayward ones, for the magnetic pull of the "centre" to work its corrective magic.
Although pure idealism, such as that of George Berkeley, is uncommon in contemporary Western philosophy, a more sophisticated variant called panpsychism, according to which mental experience and properties may be at the foundation of physical experience and properties, has been espoused by some philosophers such as Alfred North Whitehead and David Ray Griffin.
He argued that his decision to leave Massachusetts was motivated by pure idealism, not political ambition.
The idea of the Google phone store is pure, giddy idealism: You'll buy the phone you want, then you'll shop for the cell plan you want, from the carrier you want.
For Newfield himself, the book is part of another ongoing battle: "For almost 40 years I have been trying to make sense of the 1960's, trying to understand how the pure contagious idealism of 1960 to 1965 deteriorated into violence and stupidity".
"He has idealism, pure simple idealism," Tóibín said.
He's reaching for something grand, something like the pure but undeceived idealism that can be found in both the Western and African-American traditions at their best, and more often than not he catches hold of it.
Such a pure form of idealism makes panpsychism technically true, but also rather uninteresting compared to the other forms of idealist based panpsychisms we shall see below.
