Idealists are understood to represent the world as it might or should be, unlike pragmatists, who focus on the world as it presently is.

Modern Idealists, on the other hand, believe that the mind and its thoughts are the only true things that exist.

* Idealists are abstract and cooperative.

:* Mentors are the directive ( proactive ) Idealists.

:* Advocates are the informative ( reactive ) Idealists.

The cooperative temperaments are Idealists ( cooperative and abstract ), and Guardians ( cooperative and concrete ).

: The directive roles are Operators ( directive Artisans ), Administrators ( directive Guardians ), Mentors ( directive Idealists ), and Coordinators ( directive Rationals ).

The informative roles are Entertainers ( informative Artisans ), Conservators ( informative Guardians ), Advocates ( informative Idealists ), and Engineers ( informative Rationals ).

Berman's A Tale of Two Utopias and Power and the Idealists are the first two parts of a history of the so-called Generation of 1968 ( of which he was a member ).

Subject as a key-term in thinking about human consciousness began its career with the German Idealists, in response to David Hume's radical skepticism.

Idealists see prophetic passages as being of great value in teaching truths about God to be applied to present life.

Actual Idealists disregard the static concept, as totally false, in regard to the world for them where the only real is in ' the act of thinking ' within being.

Idealists deny or doubt the existence of objects independent of the mind.

Idealists deny or doubt the existence of objects independent of the mind.

Idealists such as Louis Agassiz and Richard Owen believed that each species was fixed and unchangeable because it represented an idea in the mind of the creator.

Idealists imagine a positive liberty that enables us to build together toward common objectives that fulfill and even surpass our individual goals.

The British Idealists did not, however, reify the State in the manner that Hegel apparently did ; Green in particular spoke of the individual as the sole locus of value and contended that the State's existence was justified only insofar as it contributed to the realization of value in the lives of individual persons.

" Idealists often volunteered for selection and appointment to government posts, others with an entrepreneurial bent labored to swell the dividends at home for the Hanseatic trading houses and shipping lines.

Idealists believe that knowledge is primarily ( at least in some areas ) acquired by a priori processes or is innate — for example, in the form of concepts not derived from experience.

Idealists can include both human rights campaigners ( traditionally, but not always, associated with the left ) and American neoconservatism which is usually associated with the right.

The three most prominent German Idealists were Fichte ( 1762 – 1814 ), Schelling ( 1775 – 1854 ) and Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ).

Hartleben ’ s legendary reputation in turn-of-century letters is due chiefly to the many artistic groups he founded or contributed to, from the Bavarian Bohemian Beer Brotherhood at school in Celle ( 1885 ) to the Menschenclub ( a club for “ people ”) in Magdeburg ( 1890 ), the Karlsbad Idealists ’ Club ( 1891 ), the Verbrechertisch (“ Rogues ’ Table ”) in Berlin ( 1896 ), the Berlin Naturalists ’ Society known as Durch (“ Through ”), the Berlin drama movement Freie Bühne (“ Free Stage ”), the Berlin Free Literary Society, the Leipzig " Auguren College ", not to mention the lively interest he took in the Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis ( Friedrichshagen Poets Circle ).

While most people have a strong intuition for the existence of what they refer to as consciousness, skeptics argue that this intuition is false, either because the concept of consciousness is intrinsically incoherent, or because our intuitions about it are based in illusions.

Furthermore, in the Enchiridion Augustine attempts to refute skepticism by stating, " y not positively affirming that they are alive, the skeptics ward off the appearance of error in themselves, yet they do make errors simply by showing themselves alive ; one cannot err who is not alive.

In this skeptics oppose foundationalism, which states that there have to be some basic beliefs that are justified without reference to others.

Anti-realism is the view of idealists who are skeptics about the physical world, maintaining either: 1 ) that nothing exists outside the mind, or 2 ) that we would have no access to a mind-independent reality even if it may exist.

It is argued that when psychics are challenged by skeptics and fail to prove their alleged powers, they assign all sorts of reasons for their failure, such as that the skeptic is affecting the experiment with " negative energy " or their cellphone is causing interference.

Thus, the overall findings of the study are clear and require that even we skeptics, who have long doubted parental claims of the effects of various foods on the behavior of their children, admit we might have been wrong.

Subjective idealists like George Berkeley are anti-realists in terms of a mind-independent world, whereas transcendental idealists like Immanuel Kant are strong skeptics of such a world, affirming epistemological and not metaphysical idealism.

Claims that these energies can be captured by special photographic equipment are criticized by skeptics.

Insofar as only true statements can be known, moral nihilists are moral skeptics.

Some skeptics say that Heironimus ' arms are too short to match that of a bigfoot and that he was a few inches shorter than the creature on the film, but " Bigfoot-Sewing it Up " explains that the relative position of the elbows and hips are those of a human.

Most scientists are empirical skeptics, who admit the possibility of knowledge based on evidence, but hold that new evidence may always overturn these findings.

While most cryptozoologists recognize that at least some reports are simple misidentifications, they claim that many of the creatures described by those who have seen them look nothing like the known species put forward by skeptics and claim that certain reports stick out.

He also defines the term “ skepticism ” as he uses it and identifies two types of skeptic, the Apollonian, who is “ committed to clarity and rationality ” and the Dionysian, who is “ committed to passion and instinct .” William James, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche exemplify the Apollonian skeptic, Carroll says, and Charles Sanders Peirce, Tertullian, Søren Kierkegaard, and Blaise Pascal are Dionysian skeptics.

Building on Laycock ’ s linguistic analysis, skeptics also point out that there are even problems with holding that the texts of the Enochian keys represent a genuine natural language.

These and other examples have led skeptics to believe that many of these terms are derived from notions that would have been contemporary in Dee and Kelley's time.

It is an example of a gravity hill ; the attraction contains several demonstrations of what are claimed to be phenomenons relating to the surrounding area, but skeptics would argue to be optical illusions.

Scientific skeptics advocate critical investigation of claims of paranormal phenomena: applying the scientific method to reach a rational, scientific explanation of the phenomena to account for the paranormal claims, taking into account that alleged paranormal abilities and occurrences are sometimes hoaxes or misinterpretations of natural phenomena.

While the validity of the existence of paranormal phenomena is controversial and debated passionately by both proponents of the paranormal and by skeptics, surveys are useful in determining the beliefs of people in regards to paranormal phenomena.

While skeptics may dismiss as conspiracy theory some of his later notions – such as having been a product of occult-based Nazi Vril selective breeding programs – his claims regarding participation in such highly-classified US government mind-control programs and foreknowledge of the John F. Kennedy assassination are consistent with the time period, his residences, and the nature and locations of his military service.

Many skeptics are atheists or agnostics, and have a naturalistic world-view ; however, some committed skeptics of pseudoscience including Martin Gardner have expressed belief in a god.

The movement has been criticised by some ( both religious and non-religious ) who have objected to the adoption of the title " bright " because they believe it suggests that the individuals with a naturalistic worldview are more intelligent (" brighter ") than non-naturalists, such as philosophical skeptics or idealists, believers in the paranormal, philosophical theists or the religious.