Original scientific paper

The Utopian Thought as a Human Need

Mirjana Oklobdžija ; Institute for Migration and Nationality, Zagreb

Abstract

This paper analyses the relationship between the reality and Utopia, as well as the function of the Utopian thought in the lives of people and in historical development. In this context, we are starting from the concept of freedom, the attempt to systematise limitations — within the man and around him — and an analysis of imagination, as well as its relation to Utopia, to the limitation and to freedom. The importance of the Utopian thought is found not only in the desire to change the future, but also in the desire to change the present, in the sense of changing a way of life, finding new truths, deeper knowledge and a more open position towards the reality, but also towards the possibility. The author thinks that the concept of Utopia presented this way, takes upon itself the role of a corrector of reality, because every search for the ideal changes the given conditions, even if the ideal is not reached.

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Hrčak ID:

155114

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155114

Publication date:

31.12.1990.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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