ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses not ideologies, but philosophy and the road that might lead the intellectual back to the status of philosopher. If the intellectuals bore allegiance to "intellectual and spiritual interests" and could conclude alliances with classes "struggling for social supremacy," then obviously these classes were also carriers of some ideals, compatible with the values held by the intellectuals. The social engineer, in his turn, profits also by the ambiguities of the intellectual heritage. The detestation of the world as it is and the hope for Utopia is, indeed, the ties that join together ideologue intellectual and social engineer. The social engineer possesses the instruments of change and may, as a result, engage in the construction of Utopia. If the "liberal" mentality is prone to take flights into Utopia, the "reactionary" is guilty of sensing plots in every human enterprise involving hope, enthusiasm, and will to change.
