About the book: year / "For thousands of years, the most famous, little-known and completely nameless philosophers of various directions and schools have been breaking their wise heads over the ever-present question: what is man on earth? Some, conscientiously accepting this two-legged creature as the pinnacle of creation, discover in him a luminary of reason, a vessel of nobility, the focus of both small, everyday, everyday, and higher, sublime virtues, such as does not and cannot be found in the soulless, spiritless kingdom of nature, and one could agree with such a statement if it did not remain somewhat unclear from what murky sources stem inhuman torture, the fires of the Inquisition, the beating of innocent babies, the extermination of entire nations, cities and civilizations now buried under the quicksand of waterless deserts or under the ash-covered rubble of their own towers and walls…»