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List Number: | 02827 |
EAN: | 9788072814732 |
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Manufacturer: | Eminent |
Price excluding VAT: | 199,20 CZK (8,30 €) |
Issue: 1st, 2014 | Pages: 213 | Format: 13 × 20.5 cm, bound
Bláhové dreaming of a world without villains is a sequel to the cult book How to Survive Villains. He searches for the origins of Western civilization's desire to transform villains into benevolent people and a cruel and ruthless society into a just and compassionate one. He finds his roots in ancient Greece and Israel, analyzes their religious myths, follows the parallel historical development, compares their rules of ideal behavior and discovers more similarities than differences in them. It records the interplay and occasional conflict that eventually coalesce into Western culture that continues to this day.
The delusional dream of a world without villains traces the historically ongoing tension between utopian faith and practical rationality, which is on the one hand the driving force of civilizational creativity and, on the other hand, the source of mass murder in the name of hard-to-realize "higher principles". As a possible salvation from the imminent collapse of civilization, he offers the path of the ethics of excellence consisting in the concentration of all human energies to the creation of useful things, to their own perfect purpose and meaning, in which there would be no power, time or place for villainy.