Humanitarizam vs. humanizam

Abstract

Rad predstavlja svojevrsnu apologiju humanitarizma. U njemu se navode motivi i argumenti koji ga suprotstavljaju humanizmu. Prvi dio rada posvećen je, međutim, njihovom zajedničkom povijesnom nastupu – ne bi li se uočilo da se ne mogu neproturječno smatrati istovjetnim ili nadopunjavajućim. Drugi dio rada izlaže glavne tipove suvremene kritike humanizma i proishodećih “ideologija”, dok se u trećem dijelu rada, nadovezujući se na njih, ilustrativno zagovara humanitaristička alternativa kao protuotrov humanističkoj “aroganciji”. U završnom dijelu rada iskušavaju se dileme i granice važenja humanitarizma, ne bi li se, u protustavu prema humanizmu, odredila domena njegovog prava i predložio jedan njegov odmjeren – korektivni i regulatorni – diskurzivni i djelatni status.

The work represents a kind of apology for humanitarianism. It states the motives and arguments that oppose it to humanism. However, the first part of the work is dedicated to their joint historical appearance––to notice that they cannot be considered identical or complementary without contradiction. The second part of the paper presents the main types of contemporary criticism of humanism and the resulting “ideologies” while the third part of the paper, building on them, illustratively advocates a humanitarian alternative as an antidote to humanistic “arrogance.” In the final part of the work, the dilemmas and limits of the validity of humanitarianism are tested to determine the domain of its right in opposition to humanism and propose its well-measured––corrective and regulatory––discursive and effective status.