The importance of service has been a central topic of study regarding consumer behavior and market research. Good services make customers optimistic; subsequently, measuring the pros and cons of consumer vis-a-vis service to form the degree of customer idealism. Service idealism indicates a particular service measured via the degree of optimistic based on personalities. Service idealism is asso...

BACKGROUND: This paper is motivated by the theory that developmental idealism has been disseminated globally and has become an international force for family and demographic change. Developmental idealism is a set of cultural beliefs and values about development and how development relates to family and demographic behavior. It holds that modern societies are causal forces producing modern fami...

An ethical ideologies model based on relativism and idealism was tested. Subjects judged the morality of an individual who produced a mildly or extremely positive or negative consequence by conforming to or violating a common moral norm. As predicted, an averaging model with differential weights accounted for situationists' (high relativism and idealism) and absolutists' (low relativism and hig...

Contents 1. Introduction 426 2. G ¨ odel's position in the 1950's—a stalemate 428 2.1. Inconclusive arguments 428 2.2. Realism and rationalism 430 2.3. Epistemological parity 434 2.4. A way out? 437 3. G ¨ odel's turn to Husserl's transcendental idealism 439 3.1. Varieties of idealism 439 3.2. G ¨ odel and German Idealism 440 3.3. The turn to Husserl's transcendental idealism 443 3.4. G ¨ odel'...

Since the publication of Montgomery Furth’s groundbreaking 1967 essay, ‘Monadology’, discussions of Leibniz’s phenomenalism have been one of the main staples of Anglo-American Leibniz-scholarship. By no means, however, has any consensus been reached with regard to this issue. I think one important reason for this failure in agreement has to do with how one goes about understanding a related con...

The scientific classification of human psychopathology raises a host of important philosophical issues ranging over all major areas of philosophical inquiry; logic, semantics, ontology, epistemology and ethics. The paper focuses on the major views of the ontological status of our psychodiagnostic constructs; idealism, nominalism and finally, neoaristotelian realism. Idealism holds that our psyc...

BACKGROUND Idealism declines in medical students over the course of training, with some studies identifying the beginning of the decline in year 3 of US curricula. PURPOSES This study tested the hypothesis that a decline in medical student idealism is detectable in the first two years of medical school. METHODS We sought to identify differences in survey responses between first-year (MS1) a...

The following contribution aims at presenting a reading of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy as kind idealism within the Kantian and post-Kantian tradition. goal is to argue that position shares substantial theoretical methodological grounds with Hegel’sidealism. main concepts pertaining are analyzed understood form idealism. After defending against anti-idealist interpretations we presented clas...