A new biography of Aaron Swartz tells the story of the ongoing fight between open-data philosophy and the federal government. Calling someone—or oneself—an idealist is not always a compliment. It ...
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AMONG the papers of the late George Ripley is the following list of names under the head of “ Transcendentalism,” plainly intended to convey his notion of the phases through which idealism in New ...
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Young people are often characterized as idealistic free thinkers with big ideas centered around their utopian views of what society should look like. We’ve all heard people complain about lost dreams ...
In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some degree; ...
THIS thoughtful and eloquent address, originally delivered at the celebration of the Martineau centenary, contains much more about absolute idealism than about the philosophic system of the great ...
Book Description: The appearance of Problems of Idealism in 1902 was a watershed in the vibrant cultural renaissance known as the Russian Silver Age. A collection of twelve essays by some of Russia's ...