A fan of wisdom that was the natural leader of the opposition: on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Academician Ljubomir Tadic – Personal views

He had a rare virtue of prudence, which is rare in our timetable environment and perhaps the rare trait, because we often run into what exceeds our possibilities, while it is fleeing in some way from those positions and for which he had capacity. Completely unusual for our environment in which everyone wants to be leaders, presidents, ministers, the choice of formal positions well knowing that the most powerful position is nobody can take – the position of Latin proverbs – Omnia Mea Mecum Porto.

Dobrica Cosic in his book « Friends of My Century », was still in the 1980s, but did not obey Willia Brant to establish a Social Democratic Party, and that Ljubo did not want to fight later for the leadership in the Democratic Party. He, completely rarely, he preferred to stand stable at one step lower than his abilities, but to climb a pair of stairs more than his abilities, as a result of which we have entire grotesque playades of various « managers » and « official ». But his character and his destiny ask why the best people in our country will not directly deal with politics?

The question is whether the kingdom error and generally bugging around Dobrica Ćosić, which were too much in the field of views, philosophy and literature, and too little in specific policies and security facilities as it was, e.g. In Croatia, Tudjman, and that is perhaps why this generation that was supposed to come after communism was in the political sense unfinished. Here we come to the problem of the lack of statesholder, because the group that had for this potential, and those groups who had the potential in the decomposition of Yugoslavia remained spared, not as in some other nations that profit from the crowds of Yugoslavia united, so It is still the main problem of how to unite the wit and power to Serbs, because they are still divided.

But in the theoretical part of Ljubomir Tadic, the national, democratic and universal-cosmopolitan-ethical thinkers are merged because there are all the national thinkers without a democratic and universal-cosmopolitan dimension and they often end in National-Machiavelism. There are also those who only have a democratic and universal cosmopolitan dimension and they often end in a democratic-ethical idealism. Ljubomir Tadic is such a complete thinking in which there are all dimensions present and universal, while he was too prudent and wise in the mentioned aristotal sense of high politics and to realize his ideas in political practice, remaining wise, and not wanting to be a powerful.

It is often present in our environment a provincial way of thinking from the model that everything comes from the world is good, and everything is our domestic poor and provincial. The work of Ljuba Tadic and the action of the entire Yugoslav Praxis Group denies this because they made the world’s relevant school-related school-related school as Habermas or philosophers of the so-called. Frankfurt schools. They did not stimulate anyone – neither the Western so-called. Reform Revision Marksism, neither Soviet RealSocylist Marxism, but are in which it was possible due to internal and external circumstances, designed specifically our so-called. Practical school of Marxism whose specialness was that she rested more at the original young Marks than the so-called. by official and official Marxists interpreted by Marx. Therefore, they would be looking forward to the current student movement in our country, as they knew what the state was critical), all the way to the FRY, Republika Srpska, and finally independent of Serbia, who became independent of the situation precisely during the government of them close democratic authorities.

Unlike the scientists of bureaucrats and from the so-called scientists, they were creative and dynamic do not library and change their views throughout the time so Ljubomir Tadic was in the end some kind of conservative, ie. National Oriented Social Democracy, it can be said to « right Social Democracy », and that the synthesis he achieved in part and thought was not rugged but intelligently theoretically based. Many members of this group like Tadic from Zagreb would be born and lived in Britain, America, Germany’s philosophy, in the very top of international organizations and strategic institutions, while they have only an intellectual signpost of these environments hungry such people who can They think, because they thought great ideas in the small environment.

What distinguished them from the generation of Bumera intellectuals, which they have felt the war, so that they had military ranks, which had minor-life experiences, without strong and realistic reality that were practicals that are all the phenomena of human existence, through a revolution, all the way to the various The reforms and change the regime has experienced first hand, and it is precisely the origin of their prudence, ie. Practical Aristotone Fronezis.

Finally, when it is denied her values ​​and when the realistic parallels between fascism and communism, which was in partisan, and in 18to, he bravely fought for what he was decorated, and from the war he went out with the act of the captain One part and military caste samurai, but becoming a later kind of scholar samurai.

He was a samurai and at the end of life, and in time just like the samurai began to prepare for death the next Montenje thought that « philosophic means to learn to die ». So about ten years before he passed by a book « Puzzle of Death » in which philosophical, but also human bravely, faced this phenomenon of human existence.
Eventually, the work of Ljuba Tadic, who was never the director of the Institute, or the president of the prudent Aristotle’s Spirit because Aristotle’s Fronezis never goes to Juriš, but progressing quietly like water, being sustained as Earth, elastic as air and only sometimes only flashes with the power of the fire.
Ljubomir Tadic had the strength of all these natural elements, remaining one of the examples of a true fan of wisdom, being one of the few people in our timetable environment that were endowed with Aristotelian Fronezis.

The author is a scientific advisor at the Institute of Social Sciences

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