Мисли Божидара Кнежевића
Božidar Knežević’s Thoughts

Summary/Abstract: Božidar Knežević (1862–1905) was a Serbian philosopher, writer and moralist. His philosophico-historical system is presented in his two-volume Principi istorije [The Principles of History]. As a positivist and evolutionist, he contemplated history as an evolutionary ascent of the universe and nature, since its creation, towards a moral and intellectual unification of humankind. There are different theories on the origin of Knežević’s Misli [Thoughts], his most influential work, which appeared in 1902. This moralistic book was considered to contain some simplified ideas already explored in The Principles of History. The comparison of the two books, however, sheds further light on the problem since most of the aphorisms published in the Thoughts cannot be traced back to The Principles of History. Some thoughts are based on the ideas Knežević brought to the fore in his capital work, but others are products of the author's authentic experiences and deep feelings.

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