O životnom značaju filozofije
On Life Significance of Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author thematizes the relation between philosophy as knowledge of reason and its decisive influence on the field of practice and politics through analysis of Plato, Aristotle and Kant. Investigation of inner interconnectedness of the question of crisis of philosophy and crisis of contemporary world is simultaneous with pointing out to the lack of foundation of interpretations that make fun of the speech about life significance of philosophy and “philosophers-rulers” and attempt to oppose it to the concept of rule of the law. The author demonstrates that, on this issue, their is no great difference between Plato’s and Aristotle’s standpoint and that both, as well as Kant, plead for the rule of the law. Also, according to the author, it is exactly the refutation of the significance of theory for the life world that hides actual sources of the crisis of the epoch, disables its analysis and the potential for finding possible ways to overcome it. In the second part of the article, the author reminds of the relation between philosophy and Europe and paradoxical fact that philosophy today gains more and more importance outside of the European cultural circle, especially in China and Japan, while in Europe itself it is too often forgotten and regarded as mere anachronism.

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