Then the goal to be attained must not be utopian. Philosophers, swayed by their idealism, create conditions of their imagination and weave a web of ideas which is devoid of facts and realities of life. Sir Thomas More, in his Utopia, conceived of'that ideal State which is contrary to the facts of history and human nature. Such a philosophy degenerates into a ideology with dangerous results. Karl Popper says that the speculative or utopian method which chooses an ideal state of society as the aim, which all our political actions should serve, is likely to produce violence" and that"the utopian engineers who design and execute the utopian blue-print" must"become omniscient as well as omnipotent. They become gods Even Oakshott does not spare those who seek"to turn a private dream into a public and compulsory manner of living 180 Political Philosophy must rise above all ideology. Ought to be must, as far as possible, coincide with what it can be