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5Introduction: The Anatomy of EvilIn Destined for evil?: the twentieth-century responses, University of Rochester Press. pp. 1-16. 2005.
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2Paths Traced through Reality: Kant on Commonsense TruthsIn Predrag Cicovacki, Allen Wood, Carsten Held, Gerold Prauss, Gordon Brittan, Graham Bird, Henry Allison, John H. Zammito, Joseph Lawrence, Karl Ameriks, Ralf Meerbote, Robert Holmes, Robert Howell, Rudiger Bubner, Stanley Rosen, Susan Meld Shell & Yirmiyahu Yovel (eds.), Kant's Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck, Boydell & Brewer. pp. 47-70. 2001.
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12The human soul: essays in honor of Nalin Ranasinghe (edited book)Vernon Press. 2021.This collection of essays is dedicated to a recently deceased philosopher and humanist, Nalin Ranasinghe. His central philosophical and humanistic preoccupation was with the human soul. Not surprisingly, his greatest inspiration was Socrates' credo "Care for your soul," and the title of his first book was 'The Soul of Socrates'. In this and his later writings, Ranasinghe expressed his growing concern over the idea that the human soul has been highjacked due to the way our civilization has develo…Read more
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23The luminosity of loveSebastian Press / Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church. 2018.We long to love and to be loved. We also fear love because we risk betrayal by those we love, or we betray them. Predrag Cicovacki's charming book, Luminosity of Love, uses the extraordinary love story of the great unconventional Serbian poet Laza Kostić and the vivacious aristocratic young woman, Lenka Dundjerski, as a starting point for a wide-ranging discussion of the nature of love, its importance in the Western philosophical tradition, and its relevance for living a meaningful life in our …Read more
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7Two Scales and Two Orders of ValuesIn Michael Thate & László Zsolnai (eds.), Humanities as a Resource and Inspiration for Humanizing Business, Springer Verlag. pp. 13-24. 2023.This essay opens by considering the values that we encounter in our ordinary experience. The essay then leads the audience toward a deeper understanding of values: in terms of values being instrumental or intrinsic, subjective or objective, changing or permanent. The essay then turns to outlining how and in what ways values exist. At this point, the essay introduces the thought of Nicolai Hartmann, who argues that values exist as ideal beings, which have a permanent existence independent of how …Read more
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5Kant's Debt to LeibnizIn Graham Bird (ed.), A Companion to Kant, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV V VI.
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5Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of LifeRoutledge. 2012.Dostoevsky's philosophy of life is unfolded in this searching analysis of his five greatest works: Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov. Predrag Cicovacki deals with a fundamental issue in Dostoevsky's opus neglected by all of his commentators: How can we affirm life and preserve a healthy optimism in the face of an increasingly troublesome reality? This work displays the vital significance of Dostoevsky's philosophy for understan…Read more
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19Leo Tolstoy on the Purpose of ArtPhilotheos 19 (1): 116-124. 2019.Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was one of the greatest artists of all time, but also one of the harshest critics of the contemporary art. In the conclusion of his controversial book, What is Art?, Tolstoy claimed: “The purpose of art in our time consists in transferring from the realm of reason to the realm of feeling the truth that people’s well-being lies in being united among themselves and in establishing, in place of the violence that now reins, that Kingdom of God – that is, of love – which we al…Read more
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6Gandhis FootprintsRoutledge. 2015.Mahatma K. Gandhi's dedication to finding a path of liberation from an epidemic of violence has been well documented before. The central issue and the novelty of this book is its focus on what Gandhi wanted to liberate us for. The book also provides an assessment of how viable his positive vision of humanity is. Gandhi revolutionized the struggle for Indian liberation from Great Britain by convincing his countrymen that they must turn to nonviolence and that India needed to be liberated from its…Read more
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Reason and faith : a comparison of Immanuel Kant and Albert SchweitzerIn Wayne Cristaudo & Heung-Wah Wong (eds.), From Faith in Reason to Reason in Faith: Transformations in Philosophical Theology From the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Upa. 2011.
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6The analysis of wonder: an introduction to the philosophy of Nicolai HartmannBloomsbury Academic. 2014.Structured to introduce the reader into all aspects of the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950), this book aims to stimulate further interest into his thought. Once considered the most studious and systematic of all the German philosophers of the twentieth-century, this prolific author has been nearly forgotten. For many years a student and an admirer of Hartmann's work, Cicovacki argues that a closer look into Hartmann's ontologically and axiologically oriented philosophy contains a promi…Read more
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5The meaning of life: a Quick ImmersionTibidabo Publishing. 2021.This book sheds light on how to find meaning in the mystery of existence.--Publisher description.
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16Commentary on Gentzler 1Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 10 (1): 296-311. 1994.
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7Playful Illusions: Kant on Truth in ArtIn Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii, De Gruyter. pp. 479-486. 2001.
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30Through the prism of the metaphor: A reflection of the actuality of Kant's philosophyFilozofija I Društvo 2004 (25): 101-111. 2004.This essay examines the significance of Kant's transcendental philosophy by focusing on the central metaphors used in his works. The four metaphors singled out here are those of the Copernican turn, the land of truth and the ocean of illusion, the starry heavens and the moral law, and of perpetual peace. The author emphasizes the strong and the weak points of Kant's philosophy that these metaphors reveals, and argues that these central metaphors work together and point toward the two essential c…Read more
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47On immorality of terrorism and warFilozofija I Društvo 2003 (22): 115-132. 2003.U ovom radu autor prvo analizira razlike i slicnosti izmedju rata i terorizma, a zatim argumentise da su i jedan i drugi duboko nemoralni. Njihove razlike su mnogo manje znacajne od njihovih slicnosti, o kojih je glavna ona koja se sastoji u negiranju stanovista da je svaki ljudski zivot jednako vredan. To negiranje otvara put ka nehumanom i nasilnom tretmanu onih (neprijatelja, drugih) koji nisu toliko vredni koliko i mi, sto karakterise i terorizam i rat. Pored neprihvatljivih moralnih implika…Read more
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