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Grga Čevapović: A Philosophico-Theological Writer of Modern Inclinations
Franjo Zenko
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In this work Grga Čevapović is presented for the first time as (also) a philosophical and theological, on the basis of his unpublished manuscript, entitled within his legacy as Introductio in Ethicam Christianam, which was completed in 1820. in Vukovar. After the bibliographical description given in the first part, Čevapović's autograph is analysed from the point of view of themes and problems it deals with and is identified as a work belonging to moral theology. It is established that it is not traditionally scholastic in its orientation but that it is written in the modern philosophical, Kantian spirit. Čevapović adopts Kant's practical reason, »ratio practica«, as the starting-point of moral theology which, according to Čevapović, should be constructed as a real system, set apart from other theological disciplines. Having adopted the principle of moral action from freedom which is the principle of modern, especially Kant's philosophy, čevapović wishes moral theology to be philosophical theology of morality. This is the real meaning of the title »Ethica christiana«. The last part analyses Čevapović's philosophico-theological work within the context of more recent Croatian philosophy placing it within the current which, within (neo)-scholasticism, adopts the modem principle of subjectivism (within scholastic orthodoxy negatively qualified as »modern«), or of self-consciousness (the young Franjo Rački). Čevapović"s reception of modem philosophy, especially of the Kantian principle of autonomous moral action from freedom is not an exception, but is an expression of the stream which is closely related to the spirit of Croatian National Revival, which appeared as a recognizable principle of modem Croatian political subjectivity in the early 1810’s. As a philosophico-theological writer with modem inclinations. Grga Čevapović is a manifestation of the spirit of the age in which philosophy started to function also in Croatia as an all-permeating ferment of the idea of the individual and national freedom which resulted in the spirit of Croatian National Revival which affected Grga Čevapović as well.
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83519
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Datum izdavanja:
3.12.1990.
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