TD: volume 9, issue 2012, 1, page 5–13

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Es folgt die Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache following the article short description

Based on Immanuel Kant's dictum by which he states that only goodwill can be considered unconditionally good, both within and without this world, this article seeks to explain how violence can evolve from goodwill. The world - enhancing potential, which is inherent to goodwill and - in an abstract sense - to ideocracy, too, can be further increased by enlightenment. Therefore, one is to create the educational preconditions for improving the world by one's own means. This approach is followed by technocratic ideocracies. Furthermore, totalitarian ideocracies possess "higher moralism", which calls for the unity of theory and practice.

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TD: volume 1, issue 2004, 2, page 203–218

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"Idealisten", fand Heinrich Heine, seien "weder durch Furcht noch durch Eigennutz" zu lenken. Nichts als der gute Wille erfüllt und motiviert sie. Das macht in Verbindung mit kognitiv ungemeinen Wirklichkeitsannahmen, die den Punkt zu benennen wissen, aus dem sich die Welt kurieren lässt, terrorfähig. Der brave Theologiestudent Karl Ludwig Sand wurde darüber 1819 zum Mörder. Einhundert Jahre später ließ mit bedeutenderen politischen Effekten Lenin schreiben: "Uns ist alles erlaubt".

Es folgt die Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache following the article short description

“Idealists”, Heinrich Heine decided, could neither be directed “by dread nor by selfishness”. Nothing but good intention fills and motivates them. This, in connection with cognitively uncommon assumptions on reality, that can name the source, out of which the world can be cured, prepares the ground for terrorism. It was this that turned the upright theology student Karl Ludwig Sand into a murderer in 1819. One hundred years later, with more momentous political consequences, Lenin wrote: “For us, everything is allowed.”

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