Nova topologija metafizike u djelu Abdulaha Šarčevića
The new topology of metaphysics in the work of Abdulah Šarčević

Summary/Abstract: In the shadow of reemergent threat of nuclear annihilation of Earth coming from Russian President Putin, philosophical insights of Abdulah Šarčević are suddenly becoming ever more pressing once again. Author focuses on Šarčević’s analyses of ethical perspectives opened by Hans Jonas (‘ethics of responsibility’) and Dieter Henrich (‘nuclear ethics’). In this text author attempts to reconstruct Šarčević’s conceptualizations of what he coined as ‘new topology of metaphysics’ initiated by the possibility of nuclear destruction of life on this planet. Šarčević starts with critique of ‘traditional metaphysics’ to the extent of its ‘timelessness’, confronting it with what is, according to him, the very essence of metaphysical thought – its ‘epochal-making’ ability. Author suggests that for Šarčević, philosophical thought is meaningful only if it is ‘timely’, and not ‘eternal’, thus echoing the famous Hegel’s thought on philosophy as its time conceived by thought. Only by keeping this hermeneutical perspective open, meaning, by acting in time, it is possible to ascribe meaning to the totality itself. In that regard, it becomes possible to talk about ‘the future of metaphysics’ whose ‘topos’, according to Šarčević, is practical-historical centered around the question, not about the ‘first’, but about the ‘last’, that is about the ‘ultimate’, such is the possibility of destruction of life on Earth, as, itself, very empirical possibility. This Šarčević’s metaphysical turn around the issue of the ultimate, according to author, carries with itself a new dimension of freedom.

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