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Petrić's Initiative of Dehelenization of Philosophy and Christian Theology
Franjo Zenko
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The question of dehelenization of philosophy and Christian theology intensifies the consideration of identity as well as of individuals so as of communities, especially the ethnic and national ones. This consideration is being intensified by weakening of the role of national states due to the globalization, thus resulting with fear that national cultures will lose their strongest protector, i.e. the national state. Just in Petrić’s time when through forming of national states the cultures of European nations are being ‘nationalized’, and their philosophies become an essential formative cultural and identificational element, appears the philosopher from Cres with the provocative thesis that the origin of European philosophy does not come from Ancient greek but from Egyptian and Chaldeic wisdom. This initiative of his was and still is suppressed to the second plan due to the fact, that Petrić has been through centries presented as the most rigorous renaissance platonist and critic of ‘godless’ Aristotle and aristotelianism. By analyzing of Petrić’s texts his dehelenization initiative is illustrated, and his intention to reveal the roots of Greek philosophy and stress the positive ecclesiastic reception of Egyptian and Chaldeic ‘pious’ wisdom is presented. He pleads for these ideas and tries to persuade the pope Gregory XIV. to give the order to introduce the mentioned wisdoms to the universities together with Plato’s philosophy instead of ‘godless’ aristoteliansm. At the end the modern discourse about this Petrić’s initiative is being shortly announced. In the changed political and idealogical context as the most loud appears the conflict between the afrocentric thesis on the European cultural and northern african origin of philosophy and eurocentric theses of ‘self springing up of Greek folk philosophy’, as Albert Bazala would say. This philosophy is a trade-mark of identity of European philosophy and culture in its entirety.
Ključne riječi
Petrić; dehelenization; philosophy; Christian theology
Hrčak ID:
67061
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Datum izdavanja:
8.12.2008.
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