{"id":3750,"date":"2016-12-20T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T12:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/der-mut-zum-unvollendeten"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:04:31","slug":"the-courage-of-the-unfinished","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/der-mut-zum-unvollendeten","title":{"rendered":"\u201eTHE COURAGE OF THE UNFINISHED\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>KEYNOTE SPEECH BY HEINZ FISCHER ON THE OCCASION OF BRUNO KREISKY'S BIRTHDAY<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a25jahrebkf004.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail_480x240 lazyload\" alt=\"Heinz Fischer\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a25jahrebkf004.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a25jahrebkf004-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a25jahrebkf004-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a25jahrebkf004.jpg 587w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/467;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Kreisky's thinking and will - as he himself put it - \u201ethe courage to leave things unfinished\u201c played a major role. This had nothing to do with hesitation or half-heartedness. On the contrary, the courage to leave things unfinished meant that ideologies and social structures were not a self-contained, final system for him and certainly not the final stage of history.<em> <\/em>It was a commitment to the new, to gradual reform, a commitment to the verifiability of political decisions in the sense of Karl Popper. And it was a rejection of dogmatic or even totalitarian positions. <br \/> Every political and social system is unfinished and must remain unfinished. Because what people do can also be changed for the better by people. The freedom to do so must not be taken away from them.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FESTVORTRAG VON HEINZ FISCHER ZUM GEBURTSTAG VON BRUNO KREISKY In Kreiskys Denken und Wollen spielte&ndash; wie er es selbst formulierte &ndash; &bdquo;Der Mut zum Unvollendeten&ldquo; eine gro&szlig;e Rolle. Das hatte nichts mit Z&ouml;gerlichkeit oder Halbherzigkeit zu tun. Der Mut zum Unvollendeten bedeutete vielmehr, dass Ideologien und gesellschaftliche Strukturen f&uuml;r ihn kein in sich geschlossenes endg&uuml;ltiges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3751,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[],"class_list":["post-3750","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201eDER MUT ZUM UNVOLLENDETEN\u201c - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/the-courage-of-the-unfinished\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201eDER MUT ZUM UNVOLLENDETEN\u201c - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FESTVORTRAG VON HEINZ FISCHER ZUM GEBURTSTAG VON BRUNO KREISKY In Kreiskys Denken und Wollen spielte&ndash; wie er es selbst formulierte &ndash; &bdquo;Der Mut zum Unvollendeten&ldquo; eine gro&szlig;e Rolle. 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