utopianism

Examples

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• Many people believe that pursuing utopianism can inspire social change, even if the ideal society is unattainable.

• Let us now turn to Kolnai's critique of utopianism and the utopian mind.

  Academic text (1997)

• So I think it's a great example of realistic utopianism that that it was actually got done.

• Implications of utopianism for the global awareness of the gifted are explored.

  Academic text (2008)

• "Western society," wrote Nisbet, "was moving from the Gospel of Capitalist Efficiency to the Gospel of Utopianism."

  Academic text (2010)

• The premise of utopianism is that, through human agency, we can recreate a version of pre-lapsarian perfection.

  Academic text (2005)

• In practice, too, utopianism falls short because it underestimates contingency, byproducts, and emerging new possibilities.

  Academic text (1994)

• The early years of the twentieth century generated a feeling of millennial utopianism that was offset by predictions of an inevitable cataclysm.

  Academic text (2000)

• Their doctrine is now, as it was, a mixture of old-fashioned utopianism, intellectual eclecticism, and offbeat spirituality.

  Blog text (27)

• In Havel's world, individual responsibility deepens and expands to the extent that utopianism—giving oneself over to a Weltanschauung—is eschewed.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

I

idealism

vsutopianism

30 5.6

Belief in following high moral goals even when not practical

focuses specifically on creating an ideally perfect society rather than general ideals

Antonyms

R

realism

38 4.5

A way of thinking that accepts facts and prefers practical plans

P

pragmatism

14 5.6

A practical way of solving problems that focuses on what works

How Practical

pragmatism

14 5.6

reformism

1 7.8

utopianism

2 8.3

idealism

30 5.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology