Self-knowledge: self-improvement
Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin
On the pages of this book – reflection on what human being, what a person should be, what he could become. These topics and encourage us to find our place in life and define our goals. It presents the concept of a “floating” man who goes his own way rather than drifting with the current, creating his own destiny, and perceiving the environment as sublime and beautiful music.
Daniil Granin,
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Member of the Union of Writers
Writer Daniil Granin put together his reflections on human existence. They reflect ideas of many western and eastern thinkers, but predominant in Daniil’s work are his reflections on psychology and the role of man in the “humanity-humanity” system.
Interview
“…I do not think that man will do his own thing. And if anyone does, he will still not be able to hold on, will get confused, will quit in the middle. No, if we expect someone to do it for us, then the person will not do their thing, but will only wait. You see the point?
But that’s the thing, if we do something, then we’ll wait, and if we don’t wait? Then something else will do, and on the other side. How does that get resolved?”
– Daniel, please tell me, what do you think of man as a biological being, the very being that religion talks about, man?
– Man is so dependent on his place in the world, on how right or wrong he is, on his zeal or lack of zeal, on how righteous or unrighteous he lives, so right he is. The more he is interested only in what society and those to whom he appeals can give him here, and not in anything in himself or even behind him, if he is wrong and even more so if he is godless, it seems to me that these questions can be reduced to two: what is man and what is humanity?
Man is a very complex, intricate device in which, at first glance, nothing is clear.
But in fact it is very simple. Now I asked you about the human being. And here you have somehow answered me.