Many people once faced the term "utopia" at school or a higher educational institution on philosophy or literature. As modern society in the everyday life does not face this word, most of people will hardly be able quickly, accurately and laconically to formulate what is a utopia, for example, explaining to the small child value of this term.
The utopia is a dream of an ideal society which will never be able to be turned into reality. This word came from Greek, it is literally translated as "the place which is absent" or, on other sources, "the blessed country". Today it is a special genre of fiction which is closest to science fiction. In it the model of an ideal society according to the specific writer is described. Besides, the ideas about the better future evolve together with mankind. For example, now any individual, the computer or phone of which is connected to the Internet, can publish on a wide review the thoughts of ideal political, cultural, household and other devices of the power in the form of the story or instructions. And it will be his own perfect picture of the world. The genre of a utopia originates from "State" of Platona in which the ancient thinker described the structure of the ideal, according to him, state. The utopian ideas received the following surge in popularity in the period of the Renaissance from the moment of the publication of the work Tomasa Mora - "The gold book, as useful as also amusing about the best structure of the state and about the new island the Utopia". The fact that at their writing historical prerequisites of development of society and also mentality of the specific people are not considered is considered one of design features of utopias. Therefore for most of people of the book about utopian ideals seem absolutely confused and senseless. They do not believe that to the described perfect society it is possible to come by means of scientific and technical progress or by change of human consciousness. For example, in many works relating to this style the principles of general equality, justice, humanity, rationalism and expediency are promoted, however all these ideals result from a subjective view of the author on such antagonistic concepts as the good and evil, justice and injustice, humanity and inhumanity and so forth. However, actually, everything that at the moment exists in the world, once was someone's idea. Therefore the useful, rational utopian ideas can be realized in reality. For example, any given political party can take them as a basis of the course.