Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

MISLAV KUKOČ
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split, Croatia /
Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu, Hrvatska
IN MEMORY ON NIKOLA SKLEDAR (1942–2011):
PHILOSOPHER, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
AND SOCIOLOGIST OF RELIGION
“Eros and Thanatos are not mutually unrelated and separate as it usually
takes too simple. Death is an imminent tendency of life. What brings us here
has been akin to what takes us out. However, death is for everyone strictly
individual and personal, but also a kind of deliverance, an eliminating – establishing
bond of the individual person and the cosmos. Thanatos, therefore,
is not merely the opposite of Eros and Bios, death is not only a negation of
life, but also a deliberation for the return to the timeless-eternal origin of the
overall being…” – Thus spoke Nikola Skledar, an outstanding Croatian philosopher,
cultural anthropologist and sociologist of culture and religion, who
passed away last year in November, some forty days after we had sent him the
plaque and the signed postcard with good wishes.
With his impressive versatile multidisciplinary oeuvre, with scholarly, social
and human engagement he left the permanent marker not only in Croatian
philosophical life. The participants of the Days of Frane Petrić will remember
him as one of the most regular participants from the first days of the conference,
not only by his philosophical contribution, but also by his recognizable
Dionysian moment celebrating life, wine, friendship and love.
U SPOMEN NIKOLI SKLEDARU (1942–2011):
FILOZOFU, KULTURNOM ANTROPOLOGU
I SOCIOLOGU RELIGIJE
»Eros i thanatos nisu međusobno nepovezani i odvojeni kako se to obično
prejednostavno shvaća. Smrt je imanentna tendencija života. Ono što nas donosi
srodno je onome što nas odnosi. I smrt je za svakoga strogo pojedinačna
i vlastita, ali istovremeno i izbavljenje od toga, ukidajuća – uspostavljajuća
sveza pojedinca, osobe i kozmosa. Thanatos, dakle, nije puka suprotnost erosu
i biosu, smrt nije samo puka negacija života, nego i njegovo oslobođenje za
povratak u nevremeniti-svevremeni iskon svekolika bića…« – tako je govorio
Nikola Skledar, ugledni hrvatski filozof, sociolog i antropolog, koji je premi-
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