ABSTRACT

The concept of Ideality has its root in philosophy, where it refers to the status of ideas and pattern “per se” in metaphysics. The famous German philosopher Immanuel Kant discussed the Ideality of Space and Time in his work “Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics” (1783). Danish intellectual S. A. Kierkegaard and American philosopher E. A. Singer, Jr. more recently wrote of ideality. Modern metaphysics stresses that purposeful systems that can select between objectives can be idealseeking. Such systems can move toward Ideality by continuously changing to another objective once an objective has been achieved or the effort to accomplish it was unsuccessful.