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What is the dream of utopia worth? If the dream gives the truth, then with the loss of the dream the truth is lost and vice versa. Truth and closeness to it are not always beneficial. The psychological value of utopia is undisputed, that it can cheer the masses of peoples to deeds, privations and to passions and great sufferings.

History teaches that myth, whether true or untrue, was mostly indispensable for better or for worse. The myths, even if they were utopian, worked wonders and captured the morals of the peoples. Often the ‘maturation process’ was based on an unwanted or politically wanted deception. The goal of the promise was often not achieved when people gave up their sacrifices in senseless battles.

The answer to the question of truth decides the progress both in detail and in the history of the peoples. In truth, what matters is ‘inner correctness’, that is, the deeds that are right and rightful. It is the true intention and the true parting that open or block the true path into the future.

The intellectual-moral freedom is the space for the high challenge of living with survival for the future. So the question of truth also throws a focal ray onto the ethics of moral utopia, which in the determination of goals retains its power in relation to the concept of progress.