Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

nim, odnosno profitabilnim istraživanjima, te, s druge strane, kolebanje univerziteta
između dva znanstveno-metodološka pristupa zbilji. Jedan je antimetafizički
neopozitivizam kao scient(e)ološko dogmatsko uvjerenje da znanosti
(posebno prirodne) dosežu preciznu istinu i smisao realiteta, a drugi, upravo
obrnuto, zbilju izvanzbiljski pokušava antiempirijski reproducirati u vidu lakomislenog,
gotovo dogmatskog vraćanja velikim filozofskim teorijama.
UNIVERSITY BETWEEN NEO-POSITIVISM
AND ANTI-EMPIRISM
The author endeavours to point to the increasing negative trend of commercialization
of higher education which aftermath is the dependence of science
and education on private capital as well as turning from fundamental
towards so-called applied – in other words lucrative research – thus causing
fluctuations between the two scientific-methodological approaches towards
reality. One approach is antimetaphysical neo-positivism as the scientifically
founded dogmatic conviction that sciences (particularly natural sciences) reach
the level of accurate truth and the meaning of reality, while other approach, on
the contrary, tries to reproduce the very reality in an antiempirical way – in the
form of superficial, almost dogmatic regression towards major philosophical
theories.
LEV KREFT
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia /
Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Ljubljani, Slovenija
Plenary lecture
UNIVERSITY AS ENTERPRISE
Enterprise is a company which means business. Is university an enterprise,
can it become one, and should it become an enterprise? To get at least a provisional
answer, let us follow three steps of examination:
1. What does ‘university’ denote? The first source of its name means that
university is a community of scholars (teachers and students) with approved
limited sovereignty or autonomy, and corporation in body politic.
The second and later source of its name tells that university is a
community of all sciences which builds universal knowledge out of all
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