Nauk užasa u 20. stoljeću: živimo li u mitologijskom horizontu vremena
The 20th Century Doctrine of Horror - Are We Inhabitants of a Mythological Time Horizon?

Summary/Abstract: We have a tendency in Europe to read that kind of authors who are able to interpret the great tradition o f freedom in philosophy. It is not a matter o f coincidence that Pope John Paul II recently said how St. Thomas Aquinas expressed the conscience o f freedom and truth; that he was audacious and open, that he participated in a dialogue with an Arab philosopher Averroes. We in Europe lean to the psychopathology, schizophrenia of history that has a tendency to divide indivisible, utter the unutterable, reify what cannot be reified, measure the immeasurable. I would say here: God in exile. The philosophical physiognomy penned by a Pole: Czeslaw Milosz, where the nomos and physis are harmonious is considered to be a work o f art or poetry in Europe. The other facit: Human rights and liberties re the only way of preserving the project of humankind. We want that path leading from the cynical structure narrated by Gottfried Benn, the path from the society of indifference to the society of engagement. The matter is not about being indifferent towards freedom. We are not questioning it, “not just the very freedom that even the poorest amongst us can't rid of." The West anticipates the critique o f Western societies, the thing we call Eurocentrism. This critique reaches the criticism o f scientism and the spirit of industrial revolution, which as one would say everyday speaks death sentences to millions of living creatures and millions of tons of matter, natural resources that reach their natural limits. The nuclear technology from the end of the 20th century is the most dangerous and purest attack on the structure o f sociobiology. The savage attack on the existing matter’s structure. In terms of dramaturgy that sort o f science represents the tragic space o f scientific-technological civilization. Or the “purest ascension o f polemic theory", “a new technological level within the polemical structure and a new magnitude order o f self-preservation ordnance ". Both the West and East crossed the human and natural limits with that technology and violated the realm which cannot be measured and rationalized, essentially the realm refusing to yield to any form of disposal. They exceeded the threshold if natural structures o f substance. Is this the victory dreamed by the European thinkers three or four centuries ago, summarized in the famous motto - one can only comprehend nature if he rules it or has it at disposal. As a matter o f fact, that victory reached into the area “where, up to the moment, mysterious cosmic forces were on the leash." the active participant in the western societies ' deepening agony is definitely the animosity between rival states and societies. In European example, that would be between Germany and France, which are today closer ever before. Their mutual animosity has truly vanished, albeit there is no spiritual closeness, especially in philosophy, which marked the great and irreversible moments prior to and after WW2. Let's us remember some names: A. Kojeve, M. Merleau Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, J. P. Sartre, A. Camus, A. Malraux, G. Marcel, M, Heidegger, K. Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Th. W. Adorno etc. The Asia anticipates the criticism o f the West. Or the criticism o f a civilization that “enforces predatory relation o f western cultures towards Earth." I believe that basic statement o f critique metaphysics, that purest and per se ambivalent rise o f polemic theory from Descartes and Bacon to the Heidegger's statement on metaphysic's burnout (die Verwindung) can be treated as highly deep critical insight into metaphysic's essence or in the highest degree o f polemic technology. Since the highly sophisticated intelligent ammunition has come into the world, the schizoid structure “state-building entity and self-preservation's polemic ego" is either unraveling or reaching its end.

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