Idealism vs. Naturalism

Idealismnoun

The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.

Idealismnoun

The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.

Idealismnoun

(philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

Idealismnoun

The quality or state of being ideal.

Idealismnoun

Conception of the ideal; imagery.

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The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.

Idealismnoun

The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns; - opposed to realism.

Idealismnoun

a belief in the feasibility of the implementation of ideal principles and noble goals, and the practice or habit of pursuing such goals; - opposed to realism and cynicism.

Idealismnoun

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality

Idealismnoun

impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are

Idealismnoun

elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued

Idealismnoun

the unrealistic belief in or pursuit of perfection

Idealismnoun

(in art or literature) the representation of things in ideal or idealized form.

Idealismnoun

any of various systems of thought in which the objects of knowledge are held to be in some way dependent on the activity of mind.

Idealism

In philosophy, idealism is a diverse group of metaphysical views which all assert that is in some way indistinguishable or inseparable from human perception and/or understanding, that it is in some sense mentally constructed, or that it is otherwise closely connected to ideas. In contemporary scholarship, traditional idealist views are generally divided into two groups.

Naturalismnoun

A state of nature; conformity to nature.

Naturalismnoun

The doctrine that denies a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in religious texts and in spiritual influences.

Naturalismnoun

(philosophy) Any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature as a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by a will.

Naturalismnoun

(philosophy) A doctrine which denies a strong separation between scientific and philosophic methodologies and/or topics

Naturalismnoun

(arts) A movement in theatre, film, and literature that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment.

Naturalismnoun

(nonstandard) naturism, nudism, social nudity.

Naturalismnoun

A state of nature; conformity to nature.

Naturalismnoun

The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.

Naturalismnoun

The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory.

Naturalismnoun

The principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life.

Naturalismnoun

(philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations

Naturalismnoun

an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description

Naturalismnoun

(in art and literature) a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail

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the philosophical belief that everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted

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(in moral philosophy) the theory that ethical statements can be derived from non-ethical ones.

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another term for natural religion