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Project code: 6-01-007


Contemporary practical thought


Main researcher: PAŽANIN, ANTE (35793)



Assistants
Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 01/01/93.

Papers on project (total): 20
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 2
Institution name: Fakultet političkih znanosti, Zagreb (15)
Department/Institute: Faculty of Political Science, Zagreb
Address: Lepušićeva 6
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
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Phone: 385 41 458 022
Fax: 385 41 412 283

Summary: The aim of the research on "Contemporary practical thought" consists in updating diverse kinds of knowledge and forms of man's activities which are based on this knowledge in contemporary world. The research should contribute to the differentiation of specific spheres and ways of life in the world of modern technology. It should also contribute to forming a deeper awareness of the losses which modern technological production brings into the living world in general, especially with respect to human ethical and political behaviour and activities. The rehabilitation of practical philosophy in this country and abroad in the past 25 years has restored classical practical philosophy, its history, concept and method, and has demonstrated the specific quality of practical-philosophical research and founding of human "practice". On the other hand, however, central issues of contemporary historical living world, ranging from ecologic and bio-medical to ethical, legal, political, philosophical and historical problems, are still waiting to be explored, thematised and understood in an appropriate practical-philosophical light. Therefore, starting from the results obtained so far, we should carry on systematic research within the framework of practical philosophy so that, by studying conditions and ways of man's life in modern technological and historical world, we could develop a special philosophical ethics, as well as a philosophy of politics, law and history, constituting a comprehensive practical philosophy which brings the awareness of contemporary human existence as final historical existence and makes it meaningful. In order to achieve this we should complement the classical corpus of practical philosophy within the framework of ethics by contemporary studies of special ethics, such as political, legal, social, ecological and medical ethics, as well as the ethics of scientific research itself. Similar special research should be carried out in other disciplines of practical philosophy. Whitin the philosophy of politics research should be extended to include contemporary philosophy of the state, the theory of democracy, political anthropology, political theology and the theory of political institutions. Within the philosophy of law research should be completed by classical natural law, modern positivism of law, the hermeneutics and the phenomenology of law and the theory of justice. Within the framework of the philosophy of history we should study its prehistory in the theology of the history of salvation and its dissolution in the historicist period, the founding of historical sciences and the "critique of historical reason", starting from Dilthey and Husserl. We should also study contemporary theory of historicity as philosophy of historical knowledge which is appropriate to this age as specific practical knowledge. This shows the affiliation of the philosophy of history to practical philosophy in its original sense, representing at the same time its crown and purpose. In addition to traditional methods of research, phenomenological and hermeneutic methods inherent in the humanities will be used in the first place.

Keywords: practical philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, Aristotle, Hegel, Marx, Husserl

Research goals: The aim of the research on "Contemporary practical thought" consists in updating diverse kinds of knowledge and forms of man's activities which are based on this knowledge in contemporary world. The research should contribute to the differentiation of specific spheres ans ways of life in the world of modern technology. It should also contribute to forming a deeper awareness of the losses which modern technological production brings into the living world in general, especially with respect to human ethical and political behavior and activities.

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