Should idealism for the benefit of the society guide our lifes or not?

Answer 1

If considered most arbitrarily, then it can be said that human mind has two aspects: the one, that is ordinary, limitative, definitive but realistic in reference to the realistic world around, then, there is the special, unlimited, vague and ethereal part of our mind. The picture of the world we get through our senses is a picture that however comprehensive is never fully understandable or explainable. The world we know and live in is the world we rely upon emotionally, instinctively and mostly intellectually, but the very world that cradles our rational intellectual mind generates in us our spiritual needs and huger for experiencing divinity. This is the world that makes us constantly think about possibilities beyond the limits of our knowledge. And the imperfections we see in this world do signify our innate sense of perfection, the immaculate and the ideal of everything in the mind.

This therefore is not the matter of us choosing if we should allow our idealisms to influence our life or not. It instead is a matter of realisation of the fact that it already does. Regardless of what we intellectually thing is good for us or bad for us the ordination of our ideal mind is already in place. The fact of the matter is that we could never be real if it were not for fact that there is something supper-real upon which our ration mind sits. How would we have know if something is limited, ordinary or flawed if we have not had some uncanny perception of the limitless, unique and perfect already in the reaches of our mind.

The matter then is how do we understand what really is the ideal? And how can we interpret our idealism into realistic forms for our world?

We see the reflection of our ideal self formulated in our intellectual mind. There are legislations that aim for justice in our societies; there are international organisations aiming for world peace, harmony and unity; there are systems that promise to be the best in the world. All these are the operative of ideal concepts of our own mind. But in my personal view among all these is religion. Religion claims to be the voice of supreme divinity – the ultimate in spiritual idealism.

Our ideals govern over thoughts, our actions, our conduct, our aspirations and ambitions, our visions of the future and our understanding of the past. We always see things to determine their value, to establish if they are beneficial or harmful for us in comparison with the ideals in our mind. It therefore is not a matter of deciding where we should consider idealism as a possible answer to our problems, or not, as our ultimate guide. It is the matter of a better understanding and refinement of our knowledge about the facts of life, about our own self, the world and that is already in place, as has ever been since the dawn of human civilisation.

Answer 2

Then it would depend what your definition of an ideal society is ...
My ideals might be a living nightmare for you ;-)

Answer 3

I dont get the ?