idealism

idéalisme

Fait d’avoir de grands espoirs ou objectifs, parfois difficiles ou impossibles à réaliser concrètement.

En anglais simple : Having high hopes or aims that may be difficult or impossible to achieve in real life.

• Her youthful idealism impressed us.
• Experience slowly replaced his idealism with practical thinking.
• Their plan reflects idealism but ignores the costs.

Synonymes : optimism

Contraires : realism

Expressions courantes : youthful idealism, naive idealism, idealism and reality

idéalisme

Conviction que les idées et les valeurs morales sont ce qui compte le plus dans la vie.

En anglais simple : The belief that ideas and moral values matter most in life.

• Her idealism puts fairness above profit.
• His idealism makes him value principles more than personal success.
• The movement’s idealism centers on justice and equal rights.

Contraires : materialism

Expressions courantes : moral idealism, political idealism, idealism and values

idéalisme

Théorie philosophique selon laquelle nous connaissons directement les idées ou images mentales plutôt que les choses extérieures à notre esprit.

En anglais simple : The philosophical view that we can know ideas or mental images directly, rather than things outside our minds.

• The lecture introduced philosophical idealism.
• Idealism raises questions about what we can know directly.
• She compared idealism with theories that give physical reality priority.

Contraires : realism

Expressions courantes : philosophical idealism, subjective idealism, theory of idealism