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Leo’s Society for the Advancement of Christian Philosophy and Sciences in Croatia (1908‒1928)
Vladimir Lončarević
; Fakultet filozofije i religijskih znanosti, Sveučilište u Zagrebu Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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This paper explores the establishment and activities of Leo’s Society for the Advancement of Christian Philosophy and Sciences in Croatia (Societas Leonina croatica philosophiae ac scientiis christianis excolendis), which played a major role, or rather aspired towards it, in the organisation and development of philosophical work according to the Catholic doctrine in Croatia at the dawn of the twentieth century. First of all, it deals with the Society’s ambition to act as some sort of philosophical academy aimed at the promotion of the “importance of philosophical education” (A. Mahnić).
Having taken under its wing Hrvatska straža in 1909, the first Croatian philosophical journal, Leo’s Society wished to provide a reliable organisational framework for the development of the Christian-grounded philosophical thought in Croatia during the decade 1909‒1918, though with partial success. Also, the idea of producing a general Catholic encyclopaedia, which was to be constructed on “modern foundations and on Catholic standpoint in those matters concerning faith and moral,” the Society played a significant role in the history of Croatian lexicography. In addition, the Society’s collaboration with Leo’s Society of Slovenia on the project of enyclopaedia and the joint project of the scientific journal testifies to the lively relations between the Croatian and Slovenian Catholic intellectual elites during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Lastly, on the basis of the activity of Leo’s Society, too, Catholic intellectual elite of Croatia followed the contemporary thought and organisational trends in the development of philosophy in the Catholic Church, fully determined to give a distinctive contribution to the pluralistic philosophical scene of the then Croatia.
Ključne riječi
Christian philosophy; Leo’s Society for the Advancement of Christian Philosophy and Sciences in Croatia (Societas Leonina croatica philosophiae ac scientiis christianis excolendis); Antun Mahnić; Fran Binički; Hrvatska straža; Čas; Croatian encyclopaedics; Fran Barac; Croatian Theological Academy (Hrvatska bogoslovska akademija)
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175731
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Datum izdavanja:
19.12.2016.
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