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The Triple Confusion of Utopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Luis Villoro
Luis Villoro*
Affiliation:
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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Abstract

Utopias arise out of a desire for perfection, and have often led to destruction and savagery. Why does enthusiasm for a transfigured community propel itself so rapidly into violence and evil? What unfathomable process causes the dream to transform itself into such a nightmare? Why do we bring on ourselves the evil that we abhor?

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 5 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2006

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