MARULIĆ I BRIGA ZA STVORENO – EKOLOŠKA PERSPEKTIVA
MARULIĆ AND CARE FOR GOD’S CREATION – ECOLOGICAL PERCPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: Marko Marulić’s philosophical thought is marked by Christian anthropology and Christian ethics and is firmly rooted in the Gospel. In the analysis of concrete life issues Marulić wants to actualize the gospel message as timeless and point out the ethics that is concretized in following Christ. This morality of following Jesus requires transformation of the person and obligation to transform the world. Man is Marulić’s main concern because he has taken a special place in the creation order, he is a being who is required to take responsibility not only on earth, but also for eternity. Marulić’s man is the master of his own destiny. It is this mastering of one’s destiny that is the permanent obligation of man at all times, including man in our millennium. Therefore, it is not surprising that Marko Marulić’s thought is current and re-actualized in modern times. He is, as some authors claim, our first engaged and existentially oriented writer. In the work Lessons for an honest life, following the examples of saints, he emphasized among other virtues, the need for humility and gratitude for the gifts we have received. Before Christ, man is accused for lack of gratitude not only by the angels and saints, but also by the earth, sea, air and flame, therefore everything that is created. Can we also recognize the outlines of Marulić’s anticipation of ecological ethics, ecological perspective or ecological conversion in this Last Judgment? And centuries after Marulić, church doctrine speaks of gratitude and the need to care for the country, the environment, the people. The aim of this paper is to compare Marulić’s speech on creatures at the Last Judgment with the Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si and “care for a common home”.

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