Review article
The Historical and Freedom. On Milan Kangrga’s Philosophy
Vinko Grgurev
Abstract
Concepts such as: citizen’s subject, moral consciousness, autonomy of will, freedom, revolution, the historical, praxis, time, world - in relation to which the meaning of civil society, Marxism, capitalism, socialism, communism... could be understood plausibly, then the range of the national confronting the democratic - are keywords in Milan Kangrga’s philosophy. He, through classical German Idealism, reconsiders a subject of (modern) ethics, the foundation of its limits also, of its moral consciousness and the human in him/herself. Kangrga reveals the possibilities of the autonomy of will (self-consciousness as a grounding for reason). That is why Kangrga reconsiders ethics or revolution alternative, against contemplation and reproductivity, as a realization of moral consciousness in a production of one own’s world. Kangrga, following this line of thinking, emphasizes that the meaning of praxis is his/her free activity in a shaping of the world or history in which the time as a horizon of Creative being is possible. Kangrga believes that in a civil society, as a system of inter-relations between civic subjects, capitalism, although being constituted in it, essentially confronts it by accumulating Capital on the basis of alienated work. Kangrga thinks that from that, in an effort of a human to be identical - in humanity - to his/herself, comes a claim for surpassing of existing social contradictions. Kangrga reckons that for the purpose of civil society: to socialism (in a form of human community) and to communism (as a principle of human community), democracy is immanent, as a method of their establishment. According to Kangrga, democracy is - due its principle foundation in humanity of human - in opposition to nationalism, which verifies the existing circumstances by involution of the origin of every human in a »privileged« community. Kangrga is also a distinctive historian of philosophy. Namely, by reconsidering divergencies in Marxism, he explicates the authenticity of Marx’s thought, formed in a logical and historical continuity of a modern European philosophy, following the line from Kant to Hegel, in particular. Inspired by this heritage, Kangrga - with his critical approach to other philosophical orientations, and also in regard to prosaic social-political phenomena - affirms his intellectual engagement.
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202576
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Publication date:
22.12.2004.
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