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idealism  

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  • Idealism as a systematic philosophy derives from thought's reflecting on itself and comparing the integral unity it discovers with the contingent and apparently contradictory dynamics of the external material world. The outcome of this form of self-reflection is a conception of rational unity as the highest and most perfect form of reality. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods; Idealism]

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