Individualizam: istiniti i lažni
Individualism: Genuine and Fake
Author(s): Friedrich August von HayekSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Summary/Abstract: The fundamental attitude of genuine individualism is humility towards the process by which humankind has achieved things not designed or comprehended by a single individual and which go beyond individual acumen. It remains to be seen whether human intelligence is to be allowed to grow as part of these processes or human reason is to confine itself with the chains of its own design. Individualism teaches us that the society is bigger than the individual only when free. When controlled or directed, it is limited to the powers of individual brains that control or direct it. If the presumptuousness of modern spirit that dismisses everything not consciously controlled by the individual mind is not checked in time, Edmund Burke cautions us that we may “be sure everything around us is to gradually disappear, until our interests eventually shrink to the dimensions of our brains.” ************************************ Temeljni je stav istinskoga individualizma stav poniznosti spram procesa kojima je čovječanstvo postiglo stvari koje nije projektirao ili shvatio ijedan pojedinac i koje su doista veće od individualnih pameti. Veliko je pitanje u ovome času hoće li čovjekovoj pameti biti dopušteno da nastavi rasti kao dio tih procesa ili će se ljudski um sam okovati lancima koje je sam i izradio. Individualizam nas uči da je društvo veće od pojedinca samo dok je slobodno. Kad je kontrolirano ili se njime upravlja, ono je ograničeno na moći individualnih pameti koje ga kontroliraju ili njime upravljaju. Ako preuzetnost modernoga duha, koja ne želi poštivati ništa što nije svjesno kontrolirano pojedinačnim umom, ne nauči na vrijeme gdje treba stati, Edmund Burke nas upozorava da možemo “biti sigurni kako će sve oko nas postupno nestajati, dok se napokon naša zanimanja ne stisnu do dimenzija naših mozgova.”
Journal: Politička Misao
- Issue Year: XXXVIII/2001
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 42-63
- Page Count: 22
- Language: Croatian