Original scientific paper
Václav Havel - The Dissident of the Metaphysical Responsibility
Ivan Šarčević
; Franjevačka teologija, Sarjevo, Bosna i Hercegovina
Abstract
Abstract
Václav Havel, Czech intellectual and politician, writer and statesman, dissident of the regime and the exponent of the highest power in a state, is a unique figure in the 2nd half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. His legacy is so important, that his politics is called “havelian politics”: it is marked by the attempt to permeate the politics with the spiritual and moral values, so that the comprehensive human activity might be founded upon the metaphysical responsibility for the near ones as well as for the entire society, as a un-revocable, individual, free and conscious response to the call of absolute horizon, transcendental root of existence and end of our earthly life, named “essence” by the philosophers, eternity, and God by the faithful. The author uses the notion of “dissident metaphysical responsibility” to express the Havel’s model of dealing with politics.
Keywords
Vaclav Havel; politics; human rights; dissident metaphysical responsibility
Hrčak ID:
177610
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Publication date:
6.3.2017.
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