Letting go of the way we wish things ideally would be can lead
to more human development than the ideals themselves.
to more human development than the ideals themselves.
article by Lawrence H. Staples
There are many worthy arguments for the existence of ideals. These include the role of ideals as an organizing principle around which people with similar values can gather. Like goals, ideals motivate us.
We would have to be blind, however, not to acknowledge their danger. By definition, when ideals are our gui
