The soul must accept guilt in order to destroy existing evil, lest it incur the greater guilt of idyllic withdrawal, of seeming to be good by putting… - Ernst Bloch

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The soul must accept guilt in order to destroy existing evil, lest it incur the greater guilt of idyllic withdrawal, of seeming to be good by putting up with wrong.

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About Ernst Bloch

Ernst Simon Bloch (July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977) was a German Marxist philosopher. He was a Marxist philosopher, however with a Liberal mind.

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Alternative Names: Ernst Simon Bloch Karl Knerz
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In the same society in which the processes of production and distribution will go on far out at the circumference, the essential human concerns will move to the center, to the end, into the teleological questions of "where to" and "what for."

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