The image of our time
More than forty years ago, our sage Chingiz Aitmatov wrote down: «The image of time and its meaning – people. A person concentrates the signs of the era... These are people of a new formation and therefore possess truly high qualities: consciousness, civic duty, and deep humanity... Society shapes a person, but there is also feedback. With his attitude to work, to ideals, to the interests of the people, a person contributes to the formation of society itself».
Vadim Petrovich Tutlis, as they say, «with his comrades» can well be considered one of the people who form the consciousness of modern society.
These people are known as great thinkers and people of high learning in their communities. History knows that the merits of great thinkers are best demonstrated through their ideas. But, according to Vadim Petrovich’s colleagues, the paradox of the era and man himself is that the author of the idea «is not always able to evaluate his work properly and treat it adequately, and underestimated self-esteem is incomparably less common here than cases of obvious overestimation. Vadim Petrovich – of the first», – I noticed the editor, colleague and co-author of «Selected Philosophical Works» Vadim Petrovich – AND. Ivanova.
All contemporaries, colleagues, friends and even students will fully agree with this description. Moreover, we all, who have known Vadim Petrovich since our young years, can well agree with another trait of his character – inescapable skepticism towards ourselves, characteristic of us – <TAG1>sixties«, and for Tutlis – also like for any Russian intellectual. By the way, he is the author of more than 120 titles of the first scientific political science and philosophical research: books, lecture courses, teaching aids, articles, programs.
