What Does It Mean to Be a Heretic Today? The Question of Humanity’s Perspective in the Contemporary Society

Abstract

U članku se raspravlja o filozofsko-povijesnom aspektu čovjeka poziciranog između vanjskog svijeta i unutarnjeg sebstva, primarno o odnosu čovjeka prema suvremenom društvu te vrijednostima koje ono nameće. S tim ciljem članak: a) postavlja težište čovjeka na vjerovanje kao temelj čovjekovog odnosa sa sobom i vanjskim svijetom, te suvremeno društvo koje ne može prosperirati bez čovjeka koji vjeruje, ne baveći se primarno time na što se vjera može odnositi (boga, moralno dobro, ideologiju, ljudska prava, svoje sebstvo); b) nameće pitanje čovjeka kao pitanje razvoja čovječanstva koje sa sobom nosi odgovornost odluke o perspektivi u kojoj sebe vidi, kroz analizu tri oblika moderne hereze: individualizam, sekularizam i kolektivni truizam.The paper examines the philosophical-historical aspect of a human positioned between the external world and the inner self, primarily on the relationship of man towards the contemporary society and the values imposed by it. Related to these aim, the article will: (a) put the focus on belief as a basis of man’s relationship with himself and with the external world, and on the contemporary society which cannot prosper without the man who believes, regardless of what the belief refers to (God, moral good, ideology, human rights, self being); (b) put emphasis on the issue of man as an issue on development of humanity which carries the responsibility on the decision about the future within which he sees himself through the three forms of modern heresy: individualism, secularism, and collective truism