Retroactive Force. Vol. 2. 1965–1982

It is said that the law has no retroactive effect. Yes—but only not the law of human relationships. Can we confine feelings of kinship, love, friendship, honor, and duty to strict time limits? How do you determine the starting point for these concepts? They are outside time when it comes to people devoted to their cause without reservation.

Meanwhile, any psychological tasks are harder to solve than physical ones, because a person’s activity is not purely reflexive; and within them there enters that X, which some call free will, while others call the ability to set external motives against the immeasurable multitudes of ideas and images that make up the content of our consciousness. From the defense speech of V.D. Spasovich.