Karl Jaspers: "The Question of Guilt": "Moral transgressions are the basis of the conditions out of which political guilt and crime grow. To commit innumerable small acts of carelessness, of convenient accommodation, of cheap justification of injustice, of unobserved encouragement of injustice, to participate in the creation of a public atmosphere which spreads obscurity and as such only makes evil possible, all have consequences which in part also condition political guilt in conditions and events."
H. de Balzac: "Lack of trust in the judiciary is the beginning of the end of society."
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The Czech Republic, a country of unprosecutable judges and prosecutors, writes Jan Urban. Unfortunately, he states the familiar. He does not offer ways to start solving the problem effectively, given the state of society.
Yesterday was the last farewell to Brig. Gen. Zbyněk Čeřovský at St. Vitus Cathedralin Prague. He stood up to the invaders in 1968. Cardinal Dominic Duka gave an excellent speech. More foreigners than Czechs said goodbye to him, the Commander-in-Chief of the Czech Army, President Gen. Petr Pavel was not present... It was an honour to have my voice heard in the Cathedral (detailed coverage to follow).
Reason is determined by concepts and values, which have been in chaos for centuries
Sustained by the constant chatter of "everyone about everything". That is why history repeats itself and the same problems. Can we finally define concepts clearly, maintain and enforce them so that common sense is restored and history stops repeating itself?
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