Terms that are bandied about easily in the vernacular will not help us here. I'm thinking especially of the recent series of questions of a particular Yahoo questioner.
A description of an ideal is not compulsory. My thought is very simple. It may mean that there are ideals some are aware of and others are not.
2007-11-11 03:36:33 · 2 answers · asked by Baron VonHiggins 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Life experience.
There are some ideals I hold to which I have never described to anyone, but I know what they are. These ideals come from having experienced their opposites and recalling the suffering that the opposites brought. Might these more specific ideals fall under some of the broader, better known ideals? Probably. Why do I hold them ? Because of their immediacy, their specificity to my experience, and because I have seen that I too could have failed in them just as those who taught me - through their negative example.
Peace,
;-)
2007-11-11 03:47:51 · answer #1 · answered by WikiJo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ideals are contextual. The ideal plumber would make the ideal brain surgeon, not by virtue of skill, but by virtue of his quest for being the best he can be. But each virtue demands its own ideal in the context of how that virtue is used and to what purpose.
2007-11-11 07:32:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋