What are your thoughts about idealism?

Question

any thoughts? opinions?

Answer 1

what's idealism??

Answer 2

Idealism is beautiful, but without meaning.  The communists tried it, and did not work.  Give everything to everyone equally??  Then everybody gets too little of everything to do anything with!  Rewrite the medical welfare bill?  Fantastic ideal, but a horrible reality.  Stay realistic and you have enough problems in any case.  Feed the hungry with a plate full of idealism!

Peace.

Answer 3

Most ideas of "idealism" fail. People bemoan and wail that the human race was not good enough to carry through with the "ideal."

But the truth is, if it was really "ideal," it would be easy to accomplish and everyone would want it. "Ideals" are only ideal when they catch the sense of the common person AND when they are doable. Most "ideals" are not "doable" because they contradict human rights, like Marxism does.

To be "ideal," and ideal must be like the U.S. Constitution--full of ideas that are fair, workable, and debatable.

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Answer 4

Are you talking about the theory that the world is composed entirely of concepts which have no physical existence? Intuitively, I find it rather unsatisfying, even though I like the idea that imaginary things may be just as "real" as those we see in everyday life. I'm more of an empirical materialist, although I'm not entirely satisfied with that either.  

Answer 5

idealism only with good material base,how hungry people could be focused on idealism?