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• Maahi Amin
• Roll No 388
• Semister Ist
• Govt Degree College Frisal
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INTRODUCTION
• Idealism is the earliest philosophy known to man.
• Its simple view stresses the human spirit as the most
crucial element in life.
• Although numerous philosophers differ greatly on various
specific details, most agree on the following two points:
1) The human spirit is the most crucial element in life.
2) The universe is basically nonmaterial in its complete
nature.
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Meaning of Idealism
• The word idealism is derived from the Greek
word ’idein’, meaning to see.
• The word idea came directly from Greek to
English in the 14th Century.
• The tendency to represent things in their
ideal forms, rather than as they are.
• The term entered the English language by
1743.
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Definitions
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Beliefs
Ideas and knowledge are the ultimate reality.
In our world, things will always change, but ideas and
knowledge are forever.
People who believe in idealism feel they can change lives.
These people feel the most crucial part of a person is the mind.
Idealists think the mind should always be nourished and
developed.
Idealism emphasizes the importance of mind, soul, and spirit.
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Development Of Idealism
Platonic Idealism
Religious Idealism
Modern Idealism
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EXPONENTS
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PLATONIC IDEALISM
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RELIGIOUS IDEALISM
• Idealism has exerted considerable influence on
religion –Truth as Universal God
• Augustine {354-430 },Concept of God,Concept of
Evil :Adam
• Two worlds :Man(matter) God(ideas)
• Augustine believed that the senses were unreliable
and that belief in God rests ultimately on faith.
• He believed that God already created knowledge, and
people can discover it through trying to find God.
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MODERN IDEALISM
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FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES OF
IDEALISM
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Types of idealism
• SUBJECTIVE IDEALISM OR PHENOMENALISM
Is a theory which describes a relationship between
human experience of the external world, and that
world itself, in which objects are nothing more than
collections or bundles of sense data in those who
perceive them.
• OBJECTIVE IDEALISM Is the view asserting that the
act of experiencing has a reality combining and
transcending the natures of the object experienced
and of the mind of the observer.
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Cont….
• PERSONALISM:
Personalism consider a person as a gift of god and
reality is the nature of conscious personality .In this
type life is more important ,having values and freedom
•Transcendental idealism
Transcendental idealism, founded by Immanuel Kant in
the eighteenth century, maintains that the mind shapes
the world we perceive into the form of space-and-time
.
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PRINCIPLES OF IDEALISM
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EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF
IDEALISM
Education should be universal.
• Education should have both individual & social
welfare.
• Education is conservation & transmission.
• Education is the achievement of national unity.
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PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES OF IDEALISM
• 1.SELF-REALIZATION:
Education should help the child to develop the self image
or self realization & this helps us to find a place to settle &
flourish in this world.
• 2. EXALTATION OF PERSONALITY THROUGH SELF-
REALIZATION:
Education is for the exaltation of personality is based upon
the concept of realization of the highest potentialities of
the self in a social and cultural environment.
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IDEALISM AND NURSING EDUCATION
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IDEALISM AND CURRICULUM.
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IDEALISM AND METHODS OF TEACHING
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IDEALISM AND DISCIPLINE
• Idealism believes in inner discipline
Idealism advocates
cultivation of higher values of life through moral and
religious instruction.
• Idealism accepts restraint freedom.
• It requires the teacher to present good examples
because the child considers teacher to be an ideal
person to be emulated by his pupils.
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WEAKNESS OF IDEALISM IN
EDUCATION
• Scientific research study does not support the
idealistic view of a spiritual universe.
• Ideals can WEAKNESS OF IDEALISM IN EDUCATION
to be simplified.
• The social order today discourages imitation of that
governed the lives of people of the older generation
ideas ideals , behaviors’ and the standards .
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Advantages of Idealism
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DISADVANTAGES OF
IDEALISM
• Easy to preach difficult to practice.
• Idealism is a dogmatic philosophy.
• It ignores the psychological aspects neglects the
child psychology.
• No contribution towards method of teaching.
• Idealism do not give much importance to science
and technology.
• Nobody lives strict discipline.
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