Prologue » Perhaps the biggest sin of today's world is the fact that people have begun to lose their sense of sin. « Pius XII.
Jíra Mrákota was not a good person. Instead of the Ten Commandments, he preferred to stick to a frothy mug and airy women. In the end, he became a robber and robbed wayfarers on foot and in wagons in a dense and extensive forest called Vídrholec or Fiedervolec1. It must be added that the hero of this story did not end well, like many others in the educational book Praha mordýřská a zlodějská. That book contains a lot of evil, but it does not reach the magnificence of the horrors that Hannah Arendt turned into banality with the sentence: "Eichmann — colloquially speaking — just didn't realize what he was doing2."
When I commit a sin and I am aware of it, I experience a certain intensity of guilt. Three dimensions can be distinguished: instinctual, moral and spiritual. I acted on instinct, and I rationalize it rationally afterwards. As an "animal", I know that I did something that should not be done. Even my animal relatives know this in droves, and they can scold me for it. The moral plane has to do with conscience, which, as you know, is a rodent that bites. It will not prevent sin, but it will make it impossible to have full pleasure from it. Finally, there is the fear of higher powers, which allegedly do not like sins. Rumors about the flood as retribution for people's sins have been woven throughout our culture since its beginnings. But back to that chilling sentence that describes the actions of the executor of the Holocaust: "Eichmann — colloquially speaking — just didn't realize what he was doing."
This sentence contains my answer to the question why I wrote a book about the Ten Commandments after a series of psychological data3. Above interpersonal principles, the Ten Commandments also refer to higher moral principles. While these commandments fundamentally regulate people's relationships with each other and their relationships with God, the following text is dedicated to the seven major sins. Their name is not meant as "more important than the ten", but is derived from the fact that they come from human heads, from the human mind and its appetites, desires that exceed interpersonal rules, which of course annoys God as well. These sins are also called mortal or cardinal sins, which is not the designation of their noble author. The term comes from the Latin-Italian "cardo", which is best translated into Czech as a "hinge", on which the door is hung, which can thus rotate. And similarly, the sins of this category revolve around the center of gravity of the lesser evil, appear, disappear and reopen.
Prologue Introduction or Who are you without guilt Virtues Sins Hell and the devil Seven deadly sins the first sin - Pride the second sin - Avarice third sin - Envy fourth sin - Anger the fifth sin - Fornication sixth sin - Intemperance seventh sin - Laziness
Author: Radkin Honzák, Jan Dražan Title: Seven sins of Radkin Honzák 1st edition Release year: 2025 Number of pages: 285 Published by Nakladatelství Zeď, p. r. o. Proverbs 2213/5 Prague 5 — Smíchov as its 74th publication ISBN: 978-80-88445-33-3 Printed by: PBtisk, a. s., Dělostrelecká 344, Příbram
1Kopáč Radim, Stančík Petr: Murderous and thieving Prague, Academia, Prague, 2025 2 Arendt's Hannah: Eichmann in Jerusalem — A report on the banality of evil 3Honzák Radkin., Dražan Jan: The Ten Commandments according to Radkin Honzák, Zeď, Prague, 2024