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Thoughts and notes
Pavao Vuk-Pavlović
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These notes, which are part of Vuk-Pavlović's philosophical heritage, were not as such assigned for publication. They are fragments of his philosophical studies, for the most part revealing the foundations of his philosophical system. The span of time in which they were produced extends to more than three decades.
Founding his philosophy ontologically on life experience and the source of intellectually organized activity, Vuk-Pavlović concentrates in these notes on the problems of the materialization of total humanity in our life. This is, in his view, the meaning of the autonomous personal ethos. The road to reach this goal is the road of human behaviour, differing for each individual, because it depends on the individual revelation of this meaning. By direct experience we materialize different relations towards absolute values, penetrating in this way into different regions of meaningness and creating for ourselves conditions for expertencing, to a higher or lesser degree, the fullness of our experience. To experience fully our human existence corresponds with the finding of the absolute meaning of our own life, that is with transcending from the individually conditioned transitoriness into the non-transitoriness of eternity. In this way we achieve a kind of redemption, that is a creative liberation from the absurdity of life. Vuk-Pavlović's search for a pluralistically grasped fullness of humanity, which is one of the Characteristics of his philosophy in general, has led in these notes to an eschatological intensification. To exploit the richness of a real human existence, which is in fact the richness of one's personal ethos, is only possible if life is observed from the outside, from the standpoint of death. Death becomes the last word of life, the creative word, because the view from it on life transforms the total foundations of life into a basis for the ethos illuminated by the radicalism of death. The creativity of death reaches as far as the ultimate depths of life. However, death loses its creativity and passes into a mere destruction if we surrender to the absurdity of life. As a process, the creativity of death is conditioned by the process of the meaning of one's own humanity. By this building of our real personality we become a member of the entire human community, that is, the community of spiritual beings bound together by the links of love. Consequently, death and love are »great creators and liberators of mankind«. As profund promoting powers, they are present in all forms of human life, culminating in its creative heights.
In these posthumously published notes, the problems are exposed very precisely, often only hinted at; a number of them were in fact sketches for some more widely planned treatises, some of which ment to be included in the book in which Vuk-Pavlović intended to put forward the ethic foundations of his philosophical system.
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88503
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Datum izdavanja:
5.12.1983.
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