Mediteransko mišljenje Alberta Camusa i filozofija povijesti
Albert Camus’ Mediterranean Thought and Philosophy of History

Summary/Abstract: Philosophy of history in its essence includes the idea that human history has its own meaning, the beginning and the end, that there are driving forces of history, that historical process during its own linear, progressive development aims to fulfil its own purpose and objective, whose realisation leads to the eschatological end of history. The approach of philosophy of history to the world history as a meaningful wholeness with its beginning and end is not known in the ancient foundations of Western European tradition. In Ancient Greek philosophy, which influenced Albert Camus’ Mediterranean thought, historical events were mainly seen as circular movement analogous with the nature. Refusing historical absolutism which sacrifices the man’s present for the sake of an eschatological future, Camus returns to the invincible postulate of the human nature whose secret has been kept by the Mediterranean. With his Mediterranean philosophy Camus confronts moderation with perfection, nature with history, revolt with revolution, carpe diem of the present with eschaton of the future, the sunny thought of the Mediterranean with the darkness of the European North.

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