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Liberalism vs Idealism - What's the difference?

liberalism | idealism |

As nouns the difference between liberalism and idealism

is that liberalism is the quality of being liberal while idealism is the property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.

liberalism

English

Noun

  • The quality of being liberal.
  • Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.
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  • An economic theory in favour of laissez faire and the free market.

    • idealism

    English

    (wikipedia idealism)

    Noun

  • The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
  • (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

    • Synonyms

    * (philosophy) philosophical idealism

    Antonyms

    * (philosophy) materialism

    Derived terms

    * epistemological idealism * metaphysical idealism

    Related terms

    * idealist * idealistic * idealistically

    See also

    * realism * pragmatism * materialism * physicalism

    References

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