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What Was Man Created For? The Philosophy of the Common Task What Was Man Created For? The Philosophy of the Common Task by Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov
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“To admit an absence of causality for the unbrotherly state leads not to peace and brotherhood but merely to playing at peace, to a comedy of reconciliation which creates pseudo-peace, a false peace which is worse than open hostility because the latter poses a question whereas the former prolongs enmity by concealing it.”
NikolaÄ­ Fedorovich Fedorov, Philosophy of the Common Cause
“As long as participation in knowledge does not embrace everyone, pure science will remain indifferent to struggle and degradation, while applied science will contribute to destruction either directly by the invention of weapons, or indirectly by endowing things like consumer goods with a seductive appearance, thus fostering friction among people.”
NikolaÄ­ Fedorovich Fedorov, Philosophy of the Common Cause
“A truly moral being does not need compulsion and repeated orders to perceive what his duty is - he assigns to himself his task and prescribes must be done for those from whom he has become separated, because separation (whether voluntary or not) cannot be irreversable.”
NikolaÄ­ Fedorovich Fedorov, Philosophy of the Common Cause
“By using the mass of the Earth and transforming it into a conscious force, the united human race will give to the telluric force, controlled by reason and feeling - this is, by a life-giving force - domination of the blind force of other celestial bodies, and will involve them in a single life-giving force of resuscitation.”
Nikolai F. Fedorov, What Was Man Created For? The Philosophy of the Common Task
“Universal Christian grief is the sorrowing over disunity (this is, over enmity and hatred and their ensuing consequences such as suffering and death), and this sorrow is repentance; it is something active that includes hope, expectation and trust.”
Nikolai F. Fedorov, What Was Man Created For? The Philosophy of the Common Task
“God's transcendance or immanence will only be solved when humans in their togetherness become an intrument of universal resuscitation, when the divine word becomes our divine action.”
Nikolai F. Fedorov, What Was Man Created For? The Philosophy of the Common Task