That transition is hardly unique to us; middle-aged people (again, oof) having the scales fall from their eyes is a central part of the human experience. But our sense of idealism probably had a ...

The Myth of American Idealism strives to dispel what they view as the eponymous mythology: that the United States is devoted to promoting democracy and human rights. The authors argue that such a ...

enroll in American colleges … At the university they hope to shape themselves as whole human beings, both intellectually and morally. Brimming with idealism, they wish to prepare themselves for ...

“mind-imposed unity,” noumenal ignorance idealism? Second, Kant had also already realized that the pure forms of thought were not features of the human thinker, were not in that sense psychologically ...