/ 1968
ANTI-SEMITIC DISCOURSE AND ABANDONMENT OF THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH
/in Critiques /by Kcs21blAAIn his text with a cynical title ‘A contribution to the critique of antisemitism’, Zoran Kinđić actually tries to defend classic anti-semitic attitudes. He accuses me of adopting the ideology of political correctness, claiming that my understanding of anti-semitism is too broad and that animosity and hatred toward the Jews are not present in his texts. However, he also asserts that the majority of Jewish people have agreed on the crucifixion of Jesus. He demanded that I should provide the argument that will prove that his attitudes are self-evidently anti-semitic and presented the arguments that were supposed to demonstrate the contradiction between my belief that Jesus from Nazareth is the Messiah and my critique of the christian anti-semitism. After I have provided the demanded argument, he reprimands in his next text with a title ‘On incorrectness of the exponent of political correctness’ that I have focused solely on providing the arguments that his attitudes are anti-semitic and that I have not considered his critique of my position. In this way, Kinđić supposes, all his arguments are practically justified. He has also claimed that I have no right to consider them afterwards. However, in this paper I do precisely that. I demonstrate that his arguments on the contradiction of my position do not prove anything, because in the final instance, they are based on his own opinion. The claim that I have no right to analyze them, I denote as the rejection of the pursuit of truth.
/ 1968
ANTI-SEMITIC DISCOURSE AS LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIVE PATERNALISM
/in Serbian Philosophic Culture /by Kcs21blAAIn this paper, I present some remarks about an example of Christian anti-Semitism. It is about well known anti-Semitic attitudes that Zoran Kindjic supports in his paper with some scholarly pretensions. I use this example to illustrate one kind of unacceptable paternalistic discourse. Namely, I argue that when it comes to basic eschatological teachings of Abrahamic religions, even the mildest form of what I have previously defined as linguistic-expressive paternalism – what could also be called conversational paternalism – cannot be reasonably justified.
/ 1968
BETWEEN SELF-EVIDENCE AND ARGUMENTATION: FURTHER ON ANTI-SEMITIC DISCOURSE
/in Critiques /by Kcs21blAAWhen I called Zoran Kinđić’s views self-evidently anti-Semitic, Kinđić argued that this was not self-evident to him nor to a number of unnamed people whose opinions he had sought. He asked me to offer an argument in order to support my claim. In this paper I am presenting the argument.
/ 1968
SELF-INTEREST AND MORAL MOTIVATIONS OF BELIEVERS
/in Studies /by Kcs21blAAIn this paper, I consider an important objection to moral motivation of believers. It is the objection that their acts are motivated by self-interest, i.e. their personal salvation. Such motivation is sometimes identified as selfish. Therefore, I demonstrate the distinction between self-interest and selfishness. I would like to remind the reader that the critique of self-interest as moral motivation of believers appears within the very traditions of the major world religions. Then, I argue that some contemporary forms of secular ethics, even at the highest levels, still refer to a certain form of self-interest.
/ 1968
THE BALKAN SPACE OF MAGIC
/in Reviews /by Kcs21blAA / 1968
AN IMAGE FROM POMPEI
/in Reviews /by Kcs21blAA / 1968
THE SERBIAN THEATRE IN THE SOCIAL TRANSITION CONTEXT
/in Studies /by Kcs21blAAThe Beograd Center for Studies in Cultural Development conducted a large-scale research of the present-day Serbian theatre in 2009. Planned as a comprehensive overview of the present state of affairs in the Serbian theatres, the project implied data collection, a detailed analysis of operation, organization, production and ways of financing, as well as a projection of possible new and better models of functioning of both theatre system as a whole and individual theatres with the view of their achieving a better balance of desirable and possible.
In the present social moment the Serbian theatres are a very important segment of research in culture due to their functions, and the need for crucial and concrete reforms of their functioning stemming from the ongoing social changes.
/ 1968
CHOCOLATE OR SEARCH FOR CONSOLATION
/in Critiques /by Kcs21blAA / 1968
MEDIA LITERACY AND CULTURE OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS IN NIŠ
/in (Lack Of) Culture /by Kcs21blAAThis work analyses the relationship between media and education, especially the possibilities of developing the media culture and literacy in institutional education. In the process of developing media culture and literacy, schools have a very important role being the basic educational institutions which are expected to lead a planned and systematic action with the aim of achieving the best effects of media education. In order to find out in which ways schools develop media culture and literacy, what potentials can schools use to develop these processes and if there is a difference in attitudes of students depending on their gender, we have analyzed the attitudes of primary school pupils. The work explains the results of an extensive research implemented on the sample of 142 pupils attending primary schools on the City of Niš territory. The results have confirmed that there is no statistically significant difference between the attitudes of male and female students concerning the school milieu as a favorable environment for development of media culture and literacy, within both teaching process and extracurricular activities.
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