Filozofski fragmenti

I u koji vi uvedete gledaoca u prvom kadru filma stihovima iz pesme Očekujući varvare Konstantina Kavafija: "Zašto se već smrklo, a varvari nisu došli/ A neki ljudi su stigli sa granice/ I rekli da varvara više nema/ Pa sad, šta ćemo bez varvara?/ Oni su ipak bili neko rešenje."
Metafora može da govori o odnosu Balkana prema ostatku Evrope, provincije prema gradu, siromašnih prema bogatima, a ja sam hteo da nađem moderne varvare koje društvo doživljava kao opasnost. Svako društvo ima monopol nad opasnošću. Zašto biste se vi udruživali ako nemate zajedničkog neprijatelja? Neprijatelj je uvek dobar izgovor da vladajuće strukture ostanu na vlasti, Orvelova 1984. priča o tome, pa i ove sada godine počivaju na strahu. Mediji ga stalno serviraju... Tražeći momke i devojke koji bi se transponovali u ono što sam ja zamislio na filmu, naišao sam na grupu koji su, kao i likovi u filmu, bili društveni otpadnici, tinejdžeri kojih se društvo stidi, i doživljava ih kao varvare.

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[size=46]Hilary Putnam (1926-2016)

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  Martha C. Nussbaum Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The University of Chicago
  

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[size=43]Philosophy is pretty unpopular in America today. Marco Rubio says, with typical inelegance: "We need more welders and less philosophers." Governor Pat McCrory of North Carolina also singles out philosophy as a discipline offering "worthless courses" that offer "no chances of getting people jobs." Across the nation there's unbounded adulation for the STEM disciplines, which seem so profitable. Although all the humanities suffer disdain, philosophy keeps on attracting special negative attention -- perhaps because in addition to appearing worthless, it also appears vaguely subversive, a threat to sound traditional values.[/size]
[size=43]Such was not always the case. Throughout its history in Europe, philosophy has repeatedly come in for abuse from the forces of tradition and authority. The American founding, however, was different: the founders were men of the Enlightenment, steeped in the ideas and works of Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and the ancient Greeks and Romans -- especially Cicero and the Roman Stoics. As men of the Enlightenment they took pride in steering their course by reason and argument rather than unexamined tradition. Their intellectual independence and theoretical thoughtfulness served them well when it came to setting up a new nation. We've traveled a long way from those roots, and not in a good direction.[/size]
[size=43]On March 13, America lost one of the greatest philosophers this nation has ever produced. Hilary Putnam died of cancer at the age of 89. Those of us who had the good fortune to know Putnam as mentees, colleagues, and friends remember his life with profound gratitude and love, since Hilary was not only a great philosopher, but also a human being of extraordinary generosity, who really wanted people to be themselves, not his acolytes. But it's also good, in the midst of grief, to reflect about Hilary's career, and what it shows us about what philosophy is and what it can offer humanity. For Hilary was a person of unsurpassed brilliance, but he also believed that philosophy was not just for the rarely gifted individual. Like two of his favorites, Socrates and John Dewey (and, I'd add, like those American founders), he thought that philosophy was for all human beings, a wake-up call to the humanity in us all.[/size]
[size=43]Putnam was a philosopher of amazing breadth. As he himself wrote, "Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs in one." And in his prolific career Putnam, accordingly, elaborated detailed and creative accounts of central issues in an extremely wide range of areas in philosophy. Indeed there is no philosopher since Aristotle who has made creative and foundational contributions in all the following areas: logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, political thought, philosophy of economics. philosophy of literature.[/size]