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Buddhist Studies Review, 1986
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Kultura, 2018
Overaperiodofonethousandyears(7th17thc.),agreatnumberof worksofaverybroadspectruminstyle,themes,g... more Overaperiodofonethousandyears(7th17thc.),agreatnumberof worksofaverybroadspectruminstyle,themes,genreandaesthetics were created in the Chinese fine arts. A special creative period was between the 10 th and the 13 th century, which also produced a great number of written works, in which the authors developed their aesthetics,explaininghowtheyunderstandartandcreativity,especially inrelationtopainting.Inthiswork,wefocusoncreativityrelatedto painting and on painting theories and aesthetics. Some of these texts areclosetothetextsonpaintingwrittenbyLeonardodaVinci(round the year 1500), except the Chinese texts were mostly written several centuriesbeforehistime.
Dialogue and Universalism, 1997
Analysis of Chinese landscape design offered a challenge to test the concepts of environmental ae... more Analysis of Chinese landscape design offered a challenge to test the concepts of environmental aesthetics developed in the West. With comparative approach we improved our understanding of art and environment, and of different strategies (inspired by Taoist, and/or Buddhist concepts) in designing forms of Chinese gardens. In order to describe the "hidden" symbohsm of Chinese landscape design we applied various concepts and metaphors: completeness, large and small, mirror and mirroring, garden as entrance and separate reality, disclosure and concealment, and returning to the source.
In this paper, we discuss similarities between the psychosomatics in yoga, and contemporary medic... more In this paper, we discuss similarities between the psychosomatics in yoga, and contemporary medicine and psychology. Psychosomatics of yoga offers practices which can serve either as prevention of certain disorders, or as therapy for certain diseases. While psychosomatics in medicine mostly serves as an explanation for certain diseases, and as orientation in choosing the best therapy, psychosomatics in yoga mostly serves prevention. Prevention is also important for medicine, but it is kept aside in it, i.e. in most case medicine is called upon when you have an obvious disorder, although prevention is more emphasized in modern times. In this paper we point to the influence of yoga on development of transpersonal psychology, as a particular orientation within the personality theories, and psychotherapies. In particular it was influential in articulation of certain concepts, like "peak experience" and its meaning in life.
Although a number of authors – in past times and contemporary – tried to link, or to make yoga cl... more Although a number of authors – in past times and contemporary – tried to link, or to make yoga close, or same as religion, others have rightly shown that yoga is not religion. One of the well known contemporary authors who related yoga with religion, was Mircea Eliade (190786), who tried to define the model from Bhagavad-Gita (which promotes bhakti yoga, which has religious character), as prototype of yoga and yoga teachings. In opposition to him, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) rightly pointed, that the goal and teachings of yoga are of a nonreligious character. Some analogies that can be found between some aspects of yoga and mysticism were a starting point for Surendranath Dasgupta (1885-1952), to connect and interpret concepts and practice of yoga in terms of mysticism. This stand was more reasonable then the approach of those who interpreted yoga in terms of religion. It was particularly convincing in the domain of what Dasgupta named as the third level of knowledge.
It is agreed that myth is a solidified memory of (metaphorical) occurrences, and situations that ... more It is agreed that myth is a solidified memory of (metaphorical) occurrences, and situations that existed in illo tempore (primordial time). Myth-telling and, later, recital and drama help man to recollect and remember these occurrences, and also to recognize the same pattern repeating in his life, in actual time. It is a process of double recognition: in myth and drama he recognizes the pattern of happenings which he remembers from his life, or those of other people, and in his life, or those of other people, he recognizes the pattern exemplified in myth or drama. 1 With Plato’s theory of anamnesis (remembrance, recollection) we leave aesthetics and approach epistemology, we part with poetry and drama, and enter philosophy. In the former case, remembering meant keeping in memory what has been told and retold in tradition. With Plato, remembrance and recollection refer to a special faculty and proto-history of the soul, “recollection of the things ” (i.e., ideas) formerly seen by our...
Theoria, 2020
Some artists related to romanticism - like Djura Jaksic - were able to create a number of valuabl... more Some artists related to romanticism - like Djura Jaksic - were able to create a number of valuable works, in spite of the unfavourable environment - not being welcome, or being ignored - in spite of personal handicaps, as being poor, or sick - they would continue to create until their last days, without compromising. So, on one side we see their vulnerability and being subject to strong emotions, and on the other side an ironlike creative determination, ready to sacrifice the person, and its physical and emotinal wellbeing, if that is the price for creating sublime and majestic art-works. His works - poetry, as well as paintings - confirm a strong creative will - a will to create and articulate his work at any cost, and even at the cost of life, readiness of the artist to sacrifice himself for sublime art. In Romanticism, sublime permeates artists? personality, and mirrors in his creative impulse, and it also permeates his works, choice of topics and their processing.
In this paper we have reflected on various examples of sublime in the rich heritage of classical ... more In this paper we have reflected on various examples of sublime in the rich heritage of classical Chinese poetry, from the VIIth c. BC, to he XIIth c., which express sublime, first as a personal experience and emotion, but also this tradition had collective experiences. In the introductory parts we presented the categories, which the Chinese authors developed and applied in interpreting art, in particular poetry. Then we analysed poetry examples in which the sublime has important, or crucial role, starting with the two anthologies, and then including individual authors. In these examples we find sublime poetic experiences of sublime, related to experiences of natural environment, personal life, other persons, and in examples of love poetry.
Theoria, Beograd, 2019
Moglo bi se reći da je Andrićeva knjiga Znakovi pored puta (prvi put objavljena 1976., tj. posle ... more Moglo bi se reći da je Andrićeva knjiga Znakovi pored puta (prvi put objavljena 1976., tj. posle njegove smrti) na sažet, aforističan način izlaže njegovu filozofiju života, a pisana je u duhu sažetih zapažanja o čoveku i životu, donekle sličnim mudrostima Marka Aurelija (Aurelije, 1961). Ali, njegova filozofija života se ne nalazi samo u Znakovima (pisanim u prvom licu), nego u mnogim njegovim delima, posredno ili neposredno izražena kroz različite likove, njihove životne situacije, ili zaplete u koje zapadaju, kao i kroz stavove tih likova, prema životu i okruženju. ključne reči: filozofija života, intuicija, smisao umetnosti, mostovi Najpre je Andrić svoju filozofiju života uobličavao u delu Ex Ponto (objavljeno u Zagrebu 1918. i Beogradu 1920), u kome je izrazio svoja iskustva i razmišljanja tokom vremena provedenog u zatvoru, tokom I. sv. rata. Naime, sredinom jula 1914. austrijska policija ga hapsi u Splitu i odvodi prvo u šibensku, a potom u mariborsku tamnicu u kojoj će, kao politički zatvorenik, ostati do marta 1915. g., a potom biva konfiniran (u kućnom zatvoru), u Ovčarevu i Zenici, gde ostaje sve do leta 1917. godine. Andrić je ovoj lirsko-meditativnoj prozi dao naslov koji ga na neki način povezuje sa zapisima Epistolae ex Ponto (Pisma sa Crnog mora) rimskog pesnika Ovidija (živeo od 43. g. st.-17 g. n. ere), koji su nastali u poslednjem periodu Ovidijevog života (8-17. g.), kad je on živeo u progonstvu, na obali Crnog mora. Andrić u svom Ex Pontu izlaže svoja iskustva i misli iz perioda tamnovanja, ali im daje jedan univerzalni smisao svojevrsne filozofije života, jer ih izražava kao univerzalno iskustvo, u kome čitalac može da prepozna prošle, sadašnje i buduće nevoljnike, jer "bol jedini podiže čovjeka do široke, neizmjerne ljubavi prema ljudima", do razumevanja drugih i poistovećenja sa svima koji pate, koji su patili, ili će patiti, u nameri da im pomogne. U epilogu Eks Ponta lirski subjekt vodi dijalog sa Gospodom, kome kaže-Vidio sam da je ovaj život stvar mučna koja se sastoji u nepravilnoj izmjeni grijeha i nesreće, da živjeti znači slagati varku na varku.
It is agreed that myth is a solidified memory of (metaphorical) occurrences, and situations that ... more It is agreed that myth is a solidified memory of (metaphorical) occurrences, and situations that existed in illo tempore (primordial time). Myth-telling and, later, recital and drama help man to recollect and remember these occurrences, and also to recognize the same pattern repeating in his life, in actual time. It is a process of double recognition: in myth and drama he recognizes the pattern of happenings which he remembers from his life, or those of other people, and in his life, or those of other people, he recognizes the pattern exemplified in myth or drama. 1 With Plato's theory of anamnesis (remembrance, recollection) we leave aesthetics and approach epistemology, we part with poetry and drama, and enter philosophy. In the former case, remembering meant keeping in memory what has been told and retold in tradition. With Plato, remembrance and recollection refer to a special faculty and protohistory of the soul, "recollection of the things" (i.e., ideas) formerly seen by our soul when it traveled in the divine company" (Phaedrus, 249 b.). This means that the soul (psyche) has seen and known something before birth, and after birth it has forgotten this knowledge. But, why? There are two reasons: one is prenatal and the other postnatal. In The Republic (620) Plato explains in the myth of Er, that before the souls are reborn (incarnated) each has to drink from the River of Forgetfulness (Lethe). As they drink, they forget everything they have seen and known in the world beyond.
Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, 2011
Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, 2009
Kultura, 2013
One of the permanent paradoxes of human history is that duringseveralthousandyearsreligiousplural... more One of the permanent paradoxes of human history is that duringseveralthousandyearsreligiouspluralismwasoneofthemajor causes of conflicts and wars and a challenge for eventual religious tolerance,whichseemedtobejustawell-wishingattempt(thatcould not be permanently established, so far). Thus, one can follow two lines-the history of religious conflicts and wars, and the history of (religious) tolerance (or standpoints which advocate tolerance, in particularreligioustolerance).Althoughonecanfindexamplesofideas oftoleranceinvarioustimesandcultures,onecanalsofindreligious conflictsandwarsrepeatinginvarioustimesandcultures,fromvery ancienttimes,topresentday.
Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, 2008
Filozofija i drustvo, 2011
Različite ideje o tome kako se vasiona pojavila (nastala) i kako se razvija (traje), bile su u in... more Različite ideje o tome kako se vasiona pojavila (nastala) i kako se razvija (traje), bile su u indijskoj tradiciji povezane sa mitskim, religijskim i filozofskim idejama i kontekstima, a razvijale su se u rasponu od oko 2.500 g.-od 15. v. st. e., do 16. v.-tj. od vremena veda, do purana. Kad je reč o nastanku vasione, dve glavne ideje su prisutne. Po jednoj koncepciji vasiona se samopostala, a bogovi su eventualno bili prva bića u sledu daljeg razvoja. Po drugom shvatanju, vasiona (svet) je božanska tvorevina (delo), koje je nekad nastalo u mukotrpnom procesu (kao što je komadanje prvobitnog Puruše), ili kao emanacija u božanskoj igri (plesu). Indijska tradicija je poznavala i različite kritike mitskih i religijskih shvatanja (od 8. v. st. e. do 6. v.), koji su davali prednost naturalističkim i materijalističkim objašnjenjima nastanka i razvoja univerzuma. Jedna od specifičnosti indijskih kosmogonija i kosmologija je bilo i operisanje sa velikim vremenskim rasponima, što su im omogućili indijski (arapski) brojevi koje je u 13. v. u Evropu uveo Fibonači
Filozofija i drustvo, 2013
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 1992
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