Nikolai Berdyaev

We used to pay too little attention to utopias, or even disregard them altogether, saying with regret they were impossible of realisation. Now indeed they seem to be able to be brought about far more easily than we supposed, and we are actually faced by an agonising problem of quite another kind: how can we prevent their final realisation? … Utopias are more realisable than those ‘realist politics’ that are only the carefully calculated policies of office-holders, and towards utopias we are moving. But it is possible that a new age is already beginning, in which cultured and intelligent people will dream of ways to avoid ideal states and to get back to a society that is less ‘perfect’ and more free.

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  1. shinichi Post author

    ユートピアは、かつてそう信じられていたよりもはるかに、その実現可能性が高まっているように思える。われわれはいま、新たな警戒すべき問題に直面している。すなわち、ユートピアの最終的な実現をいかにして防ぐか?……ユートピアは実現可能である。生活は、ユートピアに向かって行進している。そしておそらく、新しい世紀がはじまるだろう。知識階級や教養人たちが、なんとかしてユートピアを避け、それほど”完璧”ではなくもっと自由な非ユートピア的社会に立ち戻ろうとして、その方策を夢見る世紀が。

    ―――ニコライ・ベルジャーエフ

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