Review article
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.19.2.5
Bonifacije Perović’s Critique of Communism, Liberalism and the Scientific and Technological Revolution
Šimun Lončarević
orcid.org/0000-0002-6547-7809
; Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Šestak
orcid.org/0000-0002-2088-9041
; Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper investigates the attitude of Bonifacije Perović towards liberalism, communism and the scientific and technological revolution. Belonging to the personalist circle of Croatian Catholic intellectuals, Perović wrote several treatises and studies in political and social philosophy before and after the Second World War, in which he criticized the basic ideological setting and goals of both communism and liberalism and capitalism, respectively. concluding that, although seemingly different, both political-social ideologies converge on both materialism and resistance to the Christian worldview, which, as a final consequence, degrades man. He joined this critique after the Second World War with the critique of the scientific and technological revolution, which became an ideology per se, and with the first two ideologies formed a kind of a materialist triangle.
Keywords
Bonifacije Perović; communism; liberalism; person; scientific and technological revolution; society
Hrčak ID:
260517
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Publication date:
16.7.2021.
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