Intelektualci, odgovornost za zlo i humanizam
Intellectuals, Responsibility For Evildoing And Humanism

Summary/Abstract: The author will try to address the following issues and elaborate on the fol- lowing theses. Why do some of the top-notch intellectuals accede to tyrannical political leaders? Their principal motive is the urge to take portions of great power and steer "the wheel of history". By doing so, they betray the title of the intellectual. This act must be related to re- sponsibility for evildoing, which is an important feature of repressive, in particular totali- tarian social systems. The paradigm of Auschwitz is not a matter of the past. The most im- portant form of modern totalitarianism, assuming global scale, is neoliberal totalitarianism. What are the chances of humanism as practical philosophy and way of life in the contemporary world? It seems necessary to undertake profound theoretical redefinition of the theory of humanism. The mythology of man and unlimited humanism should be replaced with ra- tional and critical humanism differentiated from its contemporary concept. This should be so as there are immense differences in the structure of the human character, and there is also the perpetual spiral of mankind's self-destruction, visible in war and other bloody con- flicts.

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