CONQUEST OF FREEDOM

Authors

  • Željko Ivanković

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26340/muallim.v10i38.928

Abstract

In the titles of his two autobiographical books (My Struggle for Freedom; Disputed Truth), and especially in choice of the nouns freedom and truth, Hans Küng (1928) has expressed his intellectual credo, drawing the boundaries of the world he inhabits and for which, through his own integrity, he struggles. The first book is the subject of this text. It is defined by a testimony to freedom: understanding freedom, its sources and limits; seeing freedom as a fixed measure of humanity, to which humanity is dedicated; attaining freedom as a fundamental goal in life. The memoir, in its fundamental underlying concept, presents a permanent confrontation between the freedom of a strong individuality (Swiss – democrat) and institutional freedom, and those who come from other, more rigid social settings. This dialectical and dramatic confrontation is necessary and desirable for the dynamics of living, even when it becomes a seriously exacerbated ideological confrontation of mentally and morally irreconcilable entities.

(Hans Küng: My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs., Ex libris, Rijeka – Synopsis, Sarajevo, 2009., Translation from German: Željko Ivanković i Roman Ivanković)

 

Published

05-08-2022

How to Cite

Ivanković, Željko. (2022). CONQUEST OF FREEDOM. Novi Muallim, 10(38), 27–31. https://doi.org/10.26340/muallim.v10i38.928

Issue

Section

MUALLIMOV FORUM