Utopian

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As Utopian the representative of a will worldview called, its social and political social criticism of ideals are guided in force in the eyes of his critics as speculative and unrealistic, rather than pragmatically to the defect-prone realities to orient.

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In contrast, representatives of utopian ideals, especially those inspired by socialism, often use the phrase attributed to Che Guevara : “Be realistic! Demand the impossible! "

The term utopian is usually applied to representatives of pacifist , anarchist , socialist and also religious world views. It is originally derived from the early socialist authors of utopian socialism , who in turn refer to the utopian ideas of the novel " Utopia " by Thomas More .

More recent thinking in terms of social utopian criticism can be found in Ernst Bloch and Herbert Marcuse .

The representatives of the utopian direction in philosophy in the wake of Plato , especially in the Renaissance , are called utopians : Thomas More , Tommaso Campanella and Francis Bacon (see: Utopian literature ).