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Examples Of Idealistic Illusions
Idealistic illusion causes people to not see the underling cause of the illusion. As stated in Terrace Des Pres, "Nature itself--by which I mean the system of living creatures--guards against dissolution and chaos; not through control by government . . . but through the emergence, during times of prolonged crisis, of structures of behavior whose purpose is to maintain the social basis of life." Terrace believes that big ideas are an illusion that should be realized in order to succeed in society. In an evolutionary survival condition people survive by evolving where an idealistic illusion is a case where the ideas are illusion. Terrace Des Pres think the human moral sense is an idealistic illusion because human moral sense and idealism are
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