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V u k-P avlović, P., M isli i bilješk e, Prilozi 8 (1
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2), str. 163
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202, (1983)
Founding his philosophy ontologically on life experience
and the source of intellectually onganized activity, Vuk-Pavlo-
vić coneentrates in these notes on the problems of the mate-
riallzation of total humanity in our life. This is, in his view,
the meaning of the autonomous personal ethos. The road to
reach this goal is the road of human behaviour, differing for
each individual, because it depends on the individual revela-
tion of this meaning. By direet experience we materialize diffe-
rent relations towards absolute values, penetrating in this way
into different regions of meaningness and creating for oursel-
ves conđitions for experiencing, to
a
higher or lesser degree,
the fullness of our experienee. To experience fully our human
existenoe corresponds with the finding of the absolute mea­
ning of our own life, that is with transeending from the indi­
v idu a^ conditioned transitoriness into the non-transitoriness
of etemity. In this way we achieve a kind of redemption, that
is a
Creative
liiberatian from the absurdity of life. Vuk-Pavlo-
vić’s search for a pluralistically grasped fullness of humanity,
which is one of the characteristics of his philosophy in gene­
ral, has led in these notes to an eschatologioal intensification.
To exploit the richness of a real human existence, which is in
fact the richness of one’s personal ethos, is only possible if life
is observed from the outside, from the stamđpoint of death.
Death becomes the last word of life, the Creative word, because
the view from it on life transforms the total foundations of
life into a basis for the ethos illuminated by the radicalism of
death. The creativity of death reaches as far as the ultimate
depths of life.
However, death loses its creativity and passes into a mere
destruction if we surrender to the absurdity of life. As a pro-
cess, the creativity of death is conditioned by the process of
the meaning of one’s own humanity. By this building of our
real personality we become a member of the entire human
community, that is, the community of spiritual beings bound
together by the links of love. Consequently, death and love
are »great creators and liberators of mankind«. As profund
promoting powers, they are present in ali forms of human life,
culminating in its
Creative
heights.
In these posthumously published notes, the problems are
exposed very precisely, often only hinted at; a number of them
were in fact sketches for some more widely planned treatises,
some of which ment to be included in the book in which Vuk-
-Pavlović intended to put forward the ethic foundations of his
philosophical system.
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