Social Ideal and Social Reality Contradiction as Basic Feature of Utopian Projects

Abstract

The article about social ideal and social reality contradiction. One of the main characteristics of utopian theory is acknowledgement of existing social reality as social harmony distortion. On that base utopian project as nonexisting society model acknowledged to be legitimate in contrary to existing social reality. While liberal model in contrast to classical utopia acknowledges individualism as basic value, by itself this remains utopian contradiction of ideal and reality. It draws to conclusion that utopian ideal legitimation requires acknowledgement of existing social reality as social being distortion.