Individual and Society

INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY In view of the Creator’s plan, it is not possible for an ideal system to be established at the level of the whole society in the present world T he thinkers and reformers who have gone down in history were idealists. They wanted to establish a utopian system at the level of the whole of humanity. Creating an ideal society was also the dream of Plato and Aristotle, the renowned ancient Greek philosophers. Bertrand Russel, the British philosopher, desired to create an ideal society for a peaceful world to come into existence. The goal of Mahatma Gandhi was also to create a service-based society in India, after independence. These were all ideal concepts of human life. However, they serve as a testimony to the fact that all such thinkers and reformers have practically failed to create the ideal world of their dreams. The reason is that their own thinking guided these thinkers and reformers. They did not make any