Review article
VEREŠ AND MARX
Antun Juraj Gracin
Abstract
In this article the author synthetically links the elements
obtained by analyzing the life and work of Karl Marx by Tomo Vereš
O.P. whose analysis is aiming to promote the constructive dialogue
between the Marxists and the Christians. The singularity of this
Vereš’s philosophical and teological trial, as the author of this article
sees it, is Vereš’s finding the incentive for this dialogue in Marx’s
own writings. Although Marx’s position is mainly non-dialogical,
Vereš finds in the central theme of Marx’s opus, i.e. the question of
the realisation of philosophy, the potential dialogical elements. The
priority of “to be” over “to have”, the demand to abolish all “earthly
deities”, the demand for the truth to become active and the orientation
towards a definitely unforeseeable and indeterminable future are the
key thesis in Marx’s project of the realisation of philosophy, but also
one of the most essential elements of the Christian credo. In those
points of reference Vereš saw hope for opening the desirable dialogue
between the two opposed world views.
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Hrčak ID:
25016
URI
Publication date:
21.6.2005.
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