Are you realistic or idealistic?

Idealism is the philosophical theory that maintains that the ultimate nature of reality is based on mind or ideas. In the philosophy of perfection, idealism is contrasted with realism in which the external world is said to have a so-called absolute existence prior to, and independent of, knowledge and consciousness. Epistemological idealists (such as Kant), it is claimed, might insist that the only things which can be directly known for certain are just ideas (abstraction).

Realism comes from the word "Real". Let's say the things you see in "everyday life". You don't need a proof to believe a bee stings or a dog barks. Realism is, in the broadest sense, simply fidelity to actuality in its representation in literature... In order to give it more precise definition, however, one needs to limit it to the movement which arose in the nineteenth century, at least partially in reaction against Romanticism, which was centered in the novel, and which was dominant in France, England, and America from roughly mid-century to the closing decade, when it was replaced by Naturalism. In this latter scene, realism defines a literary method, a philosophical and political attitude, and a particular kind of subject matter. Realist authors especially write about history, politics or biografies.


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Idealism (idealistic) or Realism (realistic)

For me, both....I've been idealistic and realistic..and now, i want to be both..