"Prolegomena for Byzantine philosophy" and the question of Christian philosophy, with interlocutors Bogoljub Šijaković and Dušan Krcunović, we can safely say, illuminated last night's fifth evening of the "Ćirilica" festival.
At this literary program, it was said that the "Prolegomena", a vague and strange term for today's generations, followed the ancient tradition of writing commentaries and introductions whose aim was to facilitate the reading of demanding and incomprehensible texts. However, throughout the evening, when talking about Byzantium, the festival message that Cyrillic is Europe's greatest beauty dominated among the authors.
In addition, the author himself, Šijaković, points out that he wrote his work with the intention of it being a philosophical and not just a historiographical work, while he tried to face the crisis of the concept of philosophy today.
An Orthodox theologian and philosopher, professor at the Orthodox Faculty of Theology in Belgrade, Šijaković stayed at many scientific institutes abroad, where he mostly studied numerous topics from ancient and Byzantine but also from contemporary philosophy.
In his rich creative oeuvre, there are dozens of books published in Serbian or in a foreign language, among which, among others, stand out: "Mythos, physis, psyche", "Zoon politikon", "Hermes' wings", "History, Responsibility, Holiness", "Between God and Man", "Philosophy of life and Hellenic agonistics". In addition, he published over 300 studies, articles, bibliographies, reports in domestic and foreign periodicals and anthologies in Serbian, German, English, French, Russian, Italian, Slovenian and Bulgarian languages.
Last night's guests pointed out on several occasions that it seems that the very formulation of philosophy professor, as an ordinary profession, has become controversial and defamatory because it is an open question how much we actually have to do with philosophy itself today.
Šijaković believes that it must be borne in mind that true European values rest on two pillars, namely Hellenic-Roman Antiquity and Christianity. By the very fact that the European identity is in Greece and Christianity, we as Europeans can say that the origin of our future is in the past. Therefore, the seductive formulation that we turn to the future without alternatives is actually the abolition of the future, because the one who is not aware that his future is mapped out in the past has no future.
Last night was also interesting in that the audience got very actively involved by asking questions and presenting their own opinions on this topic. The founder of the "Ćirilicam" festival, Radomir Uljarević, told "Vijesti" that an evening like this is exactly what he expected from the festival and what was his original intention - that listeners and viewers, like in the Greek agora, would be active participants in every program.
Due to the great interest of the audience, the organizers introduced the preview of the ballet "Zidanje Shkadra" for tonight at 22.30:21 p.m., and in addition, at XNUMX p.m., the opening of the exhibition "Glimpses of Budva's Past", as a photo exhibition, and the literary evening "New Barbarism" by Bojan Jovanović are scheduled.
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