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Сонот на утопијата – надеж, бегство од реалноста или реализација на исkонскиот стремеж
Dream of Utopia - Hope, Escape from Reality or a Realization of the Ultimate Striving

Author(s): Tanja Miljovska
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: Utopia; Jacque Fresco; The Venus Project; Auroville; Sri Aurobindo

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the comparison of two utopian visions: the first one, based on progress in science and technology and the second one, based on spiritual development of the human being. What those two have in common is the need to enter a higher status and build a society in which the contemporary dominant behavior based on greed and aggression will be overcome, while developing qualitative, new relations between people: cooperation, solidarity, compassion, empathy, care. The futuristic vision for entrance in the next stage of social evolution, Jacque Fresco’s “The Venus Project”, is referring to resource based economy and banning the monetary system, which is the cause of all problems: poverty, wars, and ecological disasters. Sri Aurobindo’s vision is based on changing the consciousness and developing a psychic-spiritual being as the one true way to free human beings. Building bridges between different Utopias, in order to change their meaning from imaginary places and dreams, means investing a huge amount of good will and positive energy in a project that will be perfected and complemented to a fusion on higher grounds, so that one day it becomes reality.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 61-78
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Macedonian