Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

NATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOL –
CONCEPT BY PAVAO VUK-PAVLOVIĆ
In the cultures of Southeast Europe there are significant thinkers who gave
contribution to the development of philosophy of their nations, so in the past
as well as in the present days at all our neighbours we can find very interest
scientific and methodological ideas – starting from classic philosophy all the
way to the recent, most modern philosophical trends. Such important ideas
were also created by the great thinker Pavao Vuk-Pavlović (1894–1976), the
very first modern Southeastern philosopher with original complete philosophical
system.
We are talking here about his unknown idea of the national philosophical
school which was an authentic contribution to the one nation’s philosophical
development. Vuk-Pavlović came as a professor to the University in Skopje in
1958, with a significant academic, cultural, and life experience, and there he
produced some of his best works and gave a large contribution to the progress
of Macedonian tough, university, and culture. He proposed to Macedonian a
creation of the national “Skopje philosophical school”, which would deal with
the exploration of their own philosophical heritage. Vuk-Pavlović explained
that all around the world philosophers are investigating ideas of the thinkers
coming from the large cultures, but almost nobody is interested for the ideas
created in the small and less developed nations. Those ideas are often authentic
and sometime very important for the development of those nations. Therefore,
an identification, publication, and interpretation of concepts produced by such
thinkers are the real spiritual challenge for every society.
Vuk-Pavlović himself was tutor of three dissertations on history of Southeast
philosophy – Jonce Josifovski wrote on development of logic in our region,
Georgi Stardelov on history of aesthetics (and culturology), and Miloje
Petrović on Marxist ideas. After Vuk-Pavlović’s retirement, few additional
academic works were made in this sense in Skopje, and especially reviews of
the work of this great thinker. So the idea of Vuk-Pavlović on national philosophical
school produced interesting spiritual results.
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