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

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/260517

Publication date:

16.7.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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