Idealists 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 ; the latter case often takes the form of a denial of the idea that we can have unconceptualised experiences ( see Myth of the Given ).

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 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.

* A History of Philosophy: Volume VII: Modern Philosophy: From the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.

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

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

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

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

" Upon reading Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom, Layton came to understand himself as part of the intellectual tradition of Canadian Idealists.

The German Idealists believed there were problems with Kant ’ s system and sought to place it on firmer grounds.

According to Schopenhauer, Kant's original philosophy, with its refutation of all speculative theology, had been transformed by the German Idealists.

" The German Idealists claimed that all knowledge is not necessarily based on the senses.

* Susan Neiman ( 2008 ) Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists Harcourt Inc. ISBN 015101197

Keirsey referred to ENFJs as Teachers, one of the four types belonging to the temperament he called the Idealists.

Keirsey referred to the INFJs as Counselors, one of the four types belonging to the temperament he called the Idealists.

Keirsey referred to ENFPs as Champions, one of the four types belonging to the temperament he called the Idealists.

Keirsey referred to the INFPs as Healers, one of the four types belonging to the temperament he called the Idealists.

* " The Idealists ", John W. Campbell, Jr.

* The Idealists: Creating Castlecrag-ABC Radio National documentary describing the early days of the suburb.

Important influences on Collingwood were the Italian Idealists Croce, Gentile and Guido de Ruggiero, the last of whom was also a close friend.

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

Heavily influenced by Hegel and other German Idealists such as Fichte, Croce produced what was called, by him, the Philosophy of Spirit.

" 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.

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

Van Voorst states that it is hard to imagine that the phrase " receive the truth with pleasure " used in the Testimonium is the work of a Christian interpolator, for Christian writers generally avoid the use of the word " pleasure ( ηδονή in Greek ) in a positive sense due to its association with hedonism.

Regarding emotion ( used synonymously with the word " passion " in this context ), which, following St. John Damascene, Thomas defines as " a movement of the sensitive appetite when we imagine good or evil ," Thomism repudiates both the Epicurean view that happiness consists in pleasure ( sensual experiences that invoke positive emotion ), and the Stoic view that emotions are vices by nature.

Finding that, negatively framed messages led to more positive attitudes when the recipients of these messages could easily imagine the relevant symptoms.

Italian site " Emotional Breakdown " gave a positive review of Orchid's compilation album Totality, saying: " are the concentrated essence of the most poignant music you can imagine: the vocal cords that are pulled until they tear, the music sounds dark and desperate.

Coué realised that it is better to focus on and imagine the desired, positive results ( i. e. " I feel healthy and energetic " and " I can remember clearly ").

Since these studies are the most recent statistics available, imagine the impact a repeal of the Jones Act would have today: far more than a $ 656 million annual positive welfare impact – maybe closer to $ 1 billion.

For example, when asked to imagine what a ' good day ' would be like for them in the near future, people often describe both positive and negative events.

When asked to imagine what a ' good day ' would be like for them in a year, however, people resort to more uniformly positive descriptions.

Understanding liberty involves how we imagine the roles and responsibilities of the individual in society in relationship to conceptions of free will and determinism, which involves the larger domain of metaphysics.

It's hard to imagine any law passed in either Nazi Germany or Stalin's Russia that was more inconsistent with the principles of civil liberty than the Fugitive Slave Act.

The term was coined to stand in contrast with teleology, which applies to ends that are planned by an agent which can internally model / imagine various alternative futures and, enables intention, purpose and foresight.

CALP involves the “ language of learning ”, which enables children to problem-solve, hypothesize, imagine, reason and project into situations with which they have no personal experience.

`` I imagine the old girl hasn't missed us much '', Mark added, his eyes on the road.

In this thought-experiment, he asks us to imagine a man who has experienced every shade of blue except for one ( see Fig.

Rawls asks us to imagine ourselves behind a veil of ignorance that denies us all knowledge of our personalities, social statuses, moral characters, wealth, talents and life plans, and then asks what theory of justice we would choose to govern our society when the veil is lifted, if we wanted to do the best that we could for ourselves.

In looking at that painting, we imagine our limbs in a similarly contorted and barren shape, and that creates a feeling in us of strain and distress.

Nozick asked us to imagine that " superduper neuropsychologists " have figured out a way to stimulate a person's brain to induce pleasurable experiences.

Let us imagine that the magnetization of a single superparamagnetic nanoparticle is measured and let us define as the measurement time.

Let us now imagine a Lorentz transformation to have been performed on the space and time coordinates, and on the derivative operators, which form a covariant vector.

Seeking meaning leads us to imagine the intention of others.

Kripke invites us to imagine a French, monolingual boy, Pierre, who believes the following: " Londres est joli.

For example, John Rawls asks us to imagine a group of persons in a situation where they know nothing about themselves, and are charged with devising a social or political organization ( See the veil of ignorance ).

In his Twin Earth thought experiment, Hilary Putnam asks us to imagine a scenario in which there is a substance with all of the observable properties of water ( e. g., taste, color, boiling point ), but which is chemically different from water.

David Chalmers says that we can imagine that there are zombies, or persons who are physically identical to us in every way but who lack consciousness.

But Diomedes told him: " You have given us excellent news, but do not imagine you are going to get away, now that you have fallen into our hands.

Archaeologists also discovered the public latrinas, organized for collective use as a series of seats that allow us to imagine today that the function was also a social moment.

" At the official dedication of the new town, state WPA director Jennings remarked that in 1937 " it would have taken an extravagant sense of optimism to imagine the scene which lies before us here today ... Now that it is all over ...

In his book " Life on Mars ", Schiaparelli wrote: " Rather than true channels in a form familiar to us, we must imagine depressions in the soil that are not very deep, extended in a straight direction for thousands of miles, over a width of 100, 200 kilometers and maybe more.

This Samaritan they imagine to be Christ, because he is our guardian ; and they tell us that wine was poured, along with oil, into the wound, because Christ cures us by repentance and by a promise of grace.

" And from hence it must follow, that it is a Fallacy upon Ourselves, to charge our present Selves with any thing we did, or to imagine our present Selves interested in any thing which befell us, yesterday, or that our present Self will be interested in what will befall us to morrow ; since our present Self is not, in Reality, the same with the Self of Yesterday, but another like Self or Person coming in its Room, and mistaken for it ; to which another Self will succeed to morrow.

You can imagine the kind of racket we were both making between us ", recalled Mick Box in a 1989 interview.