Vaclav Havel interview

Here’s an interview of former Czech president and dissident Vaclav Havel by Foreign Policy magazine.  Havel is a beloved figure in “continental” circles and has no stranger to moral philosophy.  Here’s an interesting (and almost certainly over-generalized) tidbit on whether we should fear the growth of China:

Buddhism does not have in itself that spellbinding Christian or Islamic will to conquer or the belief that they are the heralds of the right faith and those who do not share it are the adherents of the wrong faith and need to be educated. Buddhism does not have in itself that messianic drive, and perhaps this is one of the reasons that it seems to me that China is not so dangerous.

-Colin

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December 14, 2009 · Filed Under Politics

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