Idealism that I take is the price of death for the spirit of struggle .. Although sometimes idealism is only nonsense that is like a sword of no man’s land that could kill myself .. certainly my idealism today is my attitude right now .. Tomorrow? Only God knows!! – (In a poem written on October 15, 2005)

What is idealism?
How important is people have ideals?

According to Louis O. Kattsoff (1986), the popular notion that the idealism that kind of dreamer. Adherents of idealism is a person who is not a practical person whose views were focused on the things or circumstances that essentially perfect. Popular understanding of this society makes believers regarded as one of idealism that is not realistic.

Still according to Kattsoff, the term idealism in the philosophical language, refers to the idea more than point to the ideal. Therefore better suited actually called ‘idea-ism’, but for some reason more difficult to say, the idealism is the term used.

People who claim to have the idealism is often scorned by those who are realistic / unrealistic. One case had happened to my friend on campus. He is an activist movement that remains keukeuh with the principles adopted by the movement organization. For example in the case of course, He wants excellence in teaching a college professor, he demanded a the prefect. In the classroom there should be discussions, lectures should be weighted, just perfect everything is supposed to. Although sometimes he does not realize that everything in this world is not perfect there. That perfection is imperfection is realized.

By friends of the other, he is often mocked as a true student, it contains real terms meant as an insult.

“You are an idealist to be a student?” That’s a question that my friend was able to one day from his friend.

And he answered that question by saying: “Naturally, if I idealists, while still a student. If it’s no longer a student, yet each has its own choice. “

The answer is torn just make friends forehead others wrinkled. Means, on the one side was a time he would be a realistic dong. If it refuses the bribe, could be a time after he graduated from college and work, he had received a bribe for different needs. Well?

Is idealism is indeed something that should be prosecuted? Even be something that requires? If so, whose name is really hard to live? Management demands?!

Apparently, the popular sense of idealism that demands such an ideal Kattsoff Louis said it was rooted in self my friends. They forgot or did not know that idealism is essentially composed of ideas that is also the idea, that is the ideal.

If we trace the sense of idealism that refers to the idea, the idealism is of course not have to be a burden. Because it is something that comes from yourself. Not from the outside completely.

Communism, Pancasila, Fascism is an ideology. But sometimes an ideology is always enforced. Ideology tends to be a doctrine since childhood. Thus, since our little difficult to distinguish what is right and wrong.

Exposure above is just an old picture of idealism, idealists and even ideology. But the fact is idealism is always regarded as something that is not realistic. Hopefully this assumption further scrutinized by us who realize that idealism is not something that is not realistic. Because we actually have the idealism naturally, as no man who does not have a dream, the lowest of any ideals.

Deni Andriana

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