Conference paper

»Workers, Peasants and Intellectuals of Honesty«

Milan Polić

Abstract

»Workers, peasants and intellectuals of honesty« is a phrase which should be fundamentallv, and critically examined in circumstances of general manipulation with people/humans. Its meaning, apart from its speaker’s intentions, is far more complicated than we are used to, i.e. faith in unquestionable honesty of workers and peasants, and suspicion in intellectual’s honesty. Namely, in social events, different factors do not participate equally, i.e., while the intentions and honesty of one social group is totally historically acidental and unimportant, the intentions and honesty of the other can essentially influence social events and the course of history. If honesty is an act of personal commitment, then it is possible only in its freedom, somehow already at work.
The question is, therefore, primarily, who is able and then why he/she should be honest?
Because, it doesn’t matter whether people/humans could or should do what they want, but what they are able to want.

Keywords

workers, peasants, just intelligence; social group; personal engagement

Hrčak ID:

202553

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/202553

Publication date:

16.3.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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