Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of Social Ideal comprehension and its exceptional role in Social Development of modern Ukraine. There is outlined the significance of Social Ideal for society and state through understanding the phenomenon of the Social Ideal and Civil Idea as its quintessence. The article highlights the criteria of ideals misuse and the reasons given for leveling its role. There is explicated the necessity of harmonious spiritual and the material filling the content of the ideal. The author justifies the understanding the Social Ideal as the basis for progressive social and state development. There is emphasized that only spiritual unity of people, focus on the human values can help to overcome the crisis and to become the main foundation on which updated society and state could be based.