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This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report, dated 1 May 1989, is an English translation of an essay by academician Boris Raushenbakh from the Moscow journal Kommunist. The essay argues that people need both rational scientific knowledge and metaphorical, emotional knowledge, and that these connect to morality and religious feeling. It also criticizes crude atheist propaganda and calls for restoring moral principles. The only mention of UFOs is a passing remark that some people turn to belief in flying saucers.
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Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1989 Document 3 of 3 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT] Document Date: 01 May 89 Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS Report Report Date: Report Number: JPRS-UK0-89-014 UDC Number: Author(s): Boris Viktorovich Raushenbakh, academician, department head at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, Lenin Prize winner, member of the International Academy of Astronautics] Headline: A Rational-Metaphorical Picture of the World Source Line: 18020014j Moscow KOMMUNIST in Russian No 8, May 89 (signed to press 17 May 89) pp 89-97 Subslug: [Article by Boris Viktorovich Raushenbakh, academician department head at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, Lenin Prize winner, member of the International Academy of Astronautics] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Text] Very lively debates are currently under way in society, in the course of which the qualitatively renovated features of socialism are emerging more clearly. By no means the least important in such discussions, in my view, should be problems related to the world outlook of modern man and the determination of his place in Space, in the universe, as well as, metaphorically speaking, in the space of relations with other people, society and nature on earth, outside of which we shall not be able to exist in the foreseeable future. The extent to which we shall be able to understand such problems and find the proper ways of solving them will determine, without exaggeration, the future of civilization as a whole. And although man since most ancient times has considered such problems, the rapidly changing reality and surrounding world ascribe ever new content to them, motivating us again and again to turn to them and to seek answers consistent with the realities of the present and, perhaps, the future. 2. Let me begin with an example drawn from my own life. 3. In the past I wrote books on graphic art without resorting to mathematics but using my customary logic of rational scientific knowledge. In discussions with readers an amazing pattern emerged: I was perfectly understood by mathematicians, physicists and engineers but totally misunderstood by many artists who, actually, praised the books (possibly unwilling to insult the author). At that point I recalled that I personally ''did not understand'' some works by our outstanding art experts. It turned out that something similar was
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 13 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.