{"id":147,"date":"2020-05-15T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/personalisme.dk\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2023-12-02T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:42:12","slug":"vaclav-havel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/personalism.com\/?page_id=147","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e1clav Havel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>V\u00e1clac Havel (1936-2011) was a Czech author and one of the main figures behind the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia\u2019s \u201dVelvet Revolution\u201d of 1989. After the introduction of democracy, he became president, first of Czechoslovakia and, following the country\u2019s division in 1993, of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/personalisme.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Havel-Vachel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-500\"\/><figcaption>With his work on politics and power, Havel follows in the footsteps of the personalist tradition.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Havel protested against the totalitarian communist state and the ideology that in his opinion enabled this state to continue oppressing its citizens. The ideology made people<br>capable of ignoring the fact that they lived \u201cin the lie.\u201d Havel believed that if humans were to live \u201cin the truth,\u201d then they had to take responsibility for their own lives and free themselves of the oppressive system by rebelling against it through their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charta 77<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Together with other public intellectuals, he wrote the manifesto Charta 77, criticizing among other things the failure of the authorities to recognize basic human rights. The manifesto was banned, and Havel spent several years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the revolution, Havel, who harbored no political ambitions, was elected president. Havel\u2019s \u201cunpolitical\u201d understanding of politics focused on respect for the individual:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI favor \u201dantipolitical politics,\u201d that is, politics not as the technology of power and manipulation, of cybernetic rule over humans or as the art of the utilitarian, but politics as one of the ways of seeking and achieving meaningful lives, of protecting them and serving them. I favor politics as practical morality, as service to the truth, as essentially human and humanly measured care for our fellow humans. It is, I presume, an approach which, in this world, is extremely impractical and difficult to apply in daily life. Still, I know no better alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Havel speaks of politics as \u201cmorality put into practice,\u201d \u201ca service to truth\u201d, and \u201ccare for one\u2019s neighbor,\u201d he speaks directly into a personalist tradition. Politics is not merely a game of power, nor about creating contracts among citizens; rather, the task of organizing communities and giving the people in them the best possible conditions for flourishing is a \u201cservice to truth\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Havel does not categorize himself as a personalist, but his thinking is so near to personalism that, together with for instance Jan Patoc\u030cka (1907-1977), he has been labeled a Prague personalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>More about V\u00e1clav Havel official website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaclavhavel.cz\">www.vaclavhavel.cz<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00e1clac Havel (1936-2011) was a Czech author and one of the main figures behind the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia\u2019s \u201dVelvet Revolution\u201d of 1989. 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