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"Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a discussion on paper, but had to prove its viability. Max Weber responded in great agitation: Communism, at this stage in Russian development, was virtually a crime, the road would lead over unparalleled human misery and end in a terrible catastrophe. "Quite likely", Schumpeter answered, "but what a fine laboratory". "A laboratory filled with mounds of corpses", Weber answered heatedly."
Karl Theodor Jaspers (23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher. Among his most well known contributions is his idea of the Axial Age [Achsenzeit].
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Mravnost vždy určují také cíle, které nepřesahují svět. Morálně mohu být povinen nasadit svůj život, je-li naděje na uskutečnění určitého cíle. Avšak z morálního hlediska neexistuje požadavek obětovat život, vím-li jistě, že se tím ničeho nedosáhne. Z morálního hlediska existuje požadavek dát život v sázku, ne však požadavek zvolit jistou záhubu. Morálně se v obou případech požaduje spíše opak: nečinit to, co je vzhledem k světským účelům nesmyslné, nýbrž zachovat si život pro jejich uskutečňování.
Ale je v nás vědomí viny, které má jiný zdroj. Metafyzická vina je nedostatek absolutní solidarity s člověkem jako člověkem. Tato solidarita zůstává trvalým požadavkem i tam, kde už morálně smysluplný požadavek končí. Je porušena, přihlížím-li, jak dochází k bezpráví a zločinu. Nestačí, že dávám obezřetně život v sázku, abych tomu zabránil. Jestliže k tomu dochází a jsem při tom, a zůstávám naživu, zatímco druhý je vražděn, pak je ve mně hlas, díky němuž si uvědomuji: to, že ještě žiji, je moje vina.
Imminent seems the collapse of that which for millennium has constituted man's universe. The new world which has arisen as an apparatus for supply of the necessaries of life compels everything and everyone to serve it. It annihilates whatever it has no place for person seems to be going undergoing absorption into that which is nothing more than a means to an end, into that which is devoid of purpose of significance.
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Three things are required at a university: professional training, education of the whole man, research. For the university is simultaneously a professional school, a cultural center and a research institute. People have tried to force the university to choose between these three possibilities. They have asked what it is that we really expect the university to do. Since, so they say, it cannot do everything it ought to decide upon one of these three alternatives. It was even suggested that the university as such be dissolved, to be replaced by three special types of school: institutes for professional training, institutes for general education possibly involving a special staff, and research institutes. In the idea of the university, however, these three are indissolubly united. One cannot be cut off from the others without destroying the intellectual substance of the university, and without at the same time crippling itself. All three are factors of a living whole. By isolating them, the spirit of the university perishes.