Interview: Predrag Krstić, philosopher

Philosophy is a dam against the invasion of non-opinions

"The current student movement, if I'm not mistaken, is for the most part the realization of negative engagement. It stands up against obvious lies, injustice and lack of freedom without declaring itself the owner of truth, justice and freedom and, equally important, without agreeing to political settlements around it. It is anti-political in the sense that we, burdened by 'politics as fate', cannot understand at all: it is not a question of who will rule - when the question is posed in this way, the answer already implies absolute power - but to build institutions that will make autocracy impossible and enable the change of power without blood"

Interview: Novica Milić

To write to live

One good musician, or painter, or writer, or thinker is worth more than all the main committees of all the parties, all the members of parliament, all the ministers in some imaginary government. They are - or should be - interchangeable. Artists and thinkers by their gift and type of intelligence are not. Culture is art, hence the art of life

Philosophy

Aristotle and the Pre-Socratics

Zeljko Kaludjerovic: History of Hellenic philosophy I and II; Academic book, Novi Sad, 2024.

Studies

Is there life without death?

Robocap and movie doubles(Filmski centar Srbije, Belgrade, 2023) Goran Gavrić, with the help of several films, which can mostly be classified as science fiction, uses "fantasy" in an effort to see the fusion of living and non-living matter, modern technology and man, starting not only from problems philosophy of spirit, but also ethics and philosophy of law

Philosophy

Three centuries since the birth of Immanuel Kant: Morality is no joke

This April 22 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. What does the man who said: "Have the courage to use your reason" have to say to us today?

Permanent cold treatment

In the new issue: Philosophy and other waste

The reasons for the government's negligence, even hostility to philosophy, are clear and least interesting. Philosophy creates free people, and any authoritarian structure is afraid of learned and free people. However, the question of where so many philosophers and humanistic scientists would be employed, what would they do, can be made legitimate? This is a weak question, however

Permanent cold treatment

Philosophy and other rubbish

The reasons for the government's negligence, even hostility to philosophy, are clear and least interesting. Philosophy creates free people, and any authoritarian structure is afraid of learned and free people. However, the question of where so many philosophers and humanistic scientists would be employed, what would they do, can be made legitimate? This is a weak question, however

Philosophy

Why are we doing so badly?

Novica Milić: Criticism of the Serbian mind; Most Art Yugoslavia, Zemun, 2023.

Women

What is the cost of knowing you are right

"The story of Ksenia Atanasijević is the story of the suffering of a thinking individual who sticks to her moral principles. Because, if you are principled, talented and wise, you will either be forgotten, or you will be sharpened by the leveling blade of untalented petty citizens"

Theory

Perfectly cheeky irony

Boris Groys: Communist postscript translated from German by Dragan Prole Academic book, Novi Sad, 2023.

Interview: Professor Alpar Loshonc, corresponding member of SANU

Only truth remains against power

"Our eternal dilemma is whether an intellectual loses his identity if he offers services to the authorities, that is, whether he then ceases to be an intellectual. This problem was thought to have gone away, but it hasn't. And the sirens that seduce intellectuals are more cunning today than before, the mechanisms are more invisible. And an intellectual, especially one who is no stranger to at least a small dose of cynicism, easily finds an alibi. Today, the chances of becoming a quasi-intellectual are extraordinary."

Interview: Zoran Dimić, philosopher

Getting out of Paleolithic stress

"Turning your head away from negative processes - look, in our country it's as if nothing happens on the public stage, except court and tabloid intrigues - will certainly not lead to the problems disappearing. On the contrary, the problems will rapidly metastasize. There is no doubt that for the last ten years we have been witnessing a systematic neglect of philosophy and the humanities. For decades, they have been unreservedly calling for the forcing of natural sciences, technology, the IT sector, dual education, etc. Now we are amazed at how extreme attitudes in all spheres of life "suddenly" multiplied and swelled in our societies. However, even the philosophers, focused on their 'private academic problems', did not put up a worthy resistance and are still basking in their 'white-haired tower'."