单词 | ideal state |
释义 | > as lemmasideal state ideal state n. Philosophy Politics an imaginary perfectly constituted political community, harmonious and stable. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > ideal utopia1533 ideal state1771 1771 Mr Wintersted tr. C. M. Wieland Socrates out of his Senses II. xxxviii. 105 To promote the common interest of thy ideal state, thou annihilatest all those feelings, by which the common good becomes interesting to each individual. 1824 R. Southey Bk. of Church (ed. 2) I. ii. 16 The ideal state of pastoral Arcadia, as imagined by the poets. 1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic Prolegomena xix. p. cxlvi The measure dominates the conception of Plato's ideal state. 1931 L. R. Palmer tr. E. Zeller Outl. Hist. Greek Philos. ii. iii. 126 The Syracusan Hermocrates was to describe the degeneration from the original ideal state to the present. 1970 J. Passmore Perfectibility of Man xii. 258 Kant looked forward..to an ideal State, or, in his later writings, to an ‘ethical Commonwealth’. 2000 J. Kent in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 197/2 The French revolutionaries..retained the belief of their monarchist predecessors that the ideal state should be reflected in an ideal ecclesia. < as lemmas |
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