“God is like a rich fountain that fills various vessels according to their capacity. Above the fountain, there is the inscription: “UNEQUAL TO ALL EQUALITY”. Various streams pour from various pipes into various vessels standing around the fountain. The smaller vessel holds less, but in that it is the same with the larger one, which is just as full. And what is more stupid than equal equality, which fools vainly want to introduce into the world? How foolish is the one who is contrary to blessed nature.”
Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722-1794)
How should it be understood, all people differently,all people have different inclinations,different abilities,different destinies in the end and different preferences,but they are equal in the sense that they equality filled with God’s Grace.
On the one hand it may seem like a rather conservative thought, they say, know your place, don’t move, don’t look for something you can’t jump above your head, on the other hand, if you look at it differently, it’s a very modern thought. After all, we are all different, we all have different needs and different capabilities, but we all now agree that all people should have equal rights. I think that this concept of Skovoroda can also be understood in this way, it is very modern, and this is his polemic with Enlightenment universalism, which believed that all people are born as Tabula Rasa – blank slates, and that all people can be educated as necessary , and in the end it leads to the later totalitarianism of the 20th century, with their uravnílovka, and here we must remember the Skovorodin concept Unequal to All Equality
by UkrainianBourgeois__