Friday, February 3, 2012

Utopia, Reality, and Truth

Idea and fact, utopia and reality are relative terms which constantly shift from one to the other, and if certain utopias can and must be ignored, it is not because they are utopias, that is, because they have no place in the given external reality or appear in it merely as ideas, but because they are bad ideas; and in this respect not only are they inapplicable within the existing reality, but they also have no legitimate place in the world of ideas.
Vladimir Soloviev, Critique of Abstract Principles (1877)

1 comment:

  1. After this, I promise, moratorium on Soloviev...and utopia...

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