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Topic issue 99: In any realm of life---whether academic, social, business, or political----the only way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of view. Pragmatic behavior guarantees survival, whereas idealistic views tend to be superseded by simpler, more immediate options.
What is the only way to succeed in any realm of life---whether academic, social, business, or political? The speaker asserts that pragmatic ideas and behaviors lead everyone to the road. To this point of view, I agree with reserve; however, the speaker over simples the relationship between the pragmatism and idealism, he/she omelets that they are the two sides of doing everything, that is,
idealism determines pragmatism, in turn, pragmatism affects idealism, as a result, pragmatism will always regulate the outline of idealism . They are developing with time going past, at least, they are not opposite with each other.
When a problem encounters us, the first reaction is how to solve it; admittedly, it seems that it is a pragmatic reaction, not idealistic one. Is that true?
Certainly not. If we don not have any idealistic ideas, what solution we will choose to solve the question; it means the idealistic goal is just like a target, the only thing we have to do is how to shoot it, it follows that the idealistic goal we set in our mind is the termination of all our pragmatic reaction struggling for. Moreover, without idealistic ideas, what the word --romantic-- means. Is it barely means that we human beings behave just like animals, that is, the only purpose that a man falls in love with a woman is to have off springs, just for developing their genes?
In the other hand, supposed that we only have idealistic ideas full of our minds, the world will be consisted of deranged men and women, and namely, all the men and women will see and conduct things as what we are not as they are. In that situation the people are the bland due to their ideal world; in fact, their world is not real. Without pragmatic ideas, they don not know which is right and wrong because they simply lose their criteria. Consider idealists such as America's founders, Mahatma Gandhi, or Martin Luther King. Had these idealists concerned themselves with their conscious world of their nations rather than with their pragmatic actions of an ideal society, the United States and India might still be British colonies, and African Americans might still be relegated to the backs of buses.
In conclusion, for pragmatic behaviors, the ideal ideas play a vital role; yet pragmatic ideas also serves as an important catalyst for ideal behaviors. |
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