Issue 1/2022. 66 p. ISBN 978-80-557-1962-7

Published on 30. 5. 2022



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MINORITY SCHOOL SYSTEM IN VOJVODINA 1929-1941 (WITH A FOCUS ON MINORITY RIGHTS)

Hrćan, Jan
In: Motus in verbo : Collectanea disputationum doctorandorum quodlibetalium 1, p. 9 - 19. ISBN: 978-80-557-1962-7

Abstract

In this study, I will be focusing on the issues of educational and school state policies that minorities in Vojvodina faced in the period between the years 1929-1941 or until the start of World War II in Yugoslavia, respectively. I will be going through the administrative and legal regulations for representative minorities in Vojvodina as well as the entire Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The educational diversity in Vojvodina was varied due to numerous school laws, coupled with illiteracy, and cultural backwardness of the population. To remedy the overall diversity and the cultural backwardness, many rules, laws, regulations, and legal acts were gradually legislated between the years 1919 to 1929. The end of this period is marked by 6 January Dictatorship, whose goal was to unify the social, political, and public life with Yugoslav values. A new constitution ended 37 different provincial laws and regulations and issued uniform school laws for the entire country. Since I have already researched the first part of this era, my intention for this study is to focus on the period after 1929. I will be focusing on the state and the educational system, respectively the main political issues that minorities were facing, the influence of state politics on education as well as the issue of minorities speaking their native language. I deal with research concerning school reforms, the influence of political events on the form of schools and the content of their education. The goal is to research the specific administrative and legal regulations and how they influenced minorities in Vojvodina as opposed to the majority population in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

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PAN-SLAVISM AS A “CULTURAL NATIONALISM”? TRANSLATION AND ADOPTION OF THE PAN-SLAVIC IDEAS IN THE SERBIAN CONTEXT IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Ljuboja, Dušan J.
In: Motus in verbo : Collectanea disputationum doctorandorum quodlibetalium 1, p. 21 - 40. ISBN: 978-80-557-1962-7

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The aim of this paper is to show how the main ideas of Pan-Slavism of the first half of the nineteenth century influenced the development of the Serbian national movement. By mainly focusing on the issues of language and literary cooperation, as well as on the perceptions of the distant past, I argue that Pan-Slavism had a deep impact on Serbian national development. The idea of Slavic literary reciprocity directly led to the establishment of South Slavic literary cooperation. Furthermore, it revealed the division between the Serbs and the Croats regarding how they perceived this literary union and how it should be named. Another point of influence between Pan-Slavism and emerging Serbian nationalism was the question of the “ancient past,” which had a hidden political agenda.

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EVOLUTION AND MORALITY AS USEFUL FICTION

Spodniak, Stanislav
In: Motus in verbo : Collectanea disputationum doctorandorum quodlibetalium 1, p. 41 - 49. ISBN: 978-80-557-1962-7

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Contemporary naturalistic moral philosophers often point out that evolutionary mechanisms have influence on morality. They assume that the process of natural selection shaped our psychological predispositions, which help us to make our moral judgments. However, the process of natural selection did not create these predispositions in a way that they track independent moral truths, but so that they give us the greatest possible chance to survive in our natural and social environment. The aim of the contribution is to critically assess the moral fictionalism of Richard Joyce – a metaethical position according to which we should on the basis that morality is an evolutionary adaptation regard morality as useful fiction and for pragmatic reasons consider our moral statement as true, even though we know that they are all not true. I do not object to the conclusion of moral fictionalism, that we should for pragmatic reasons consider moral statements as true. My point however is that the relationship between evolution and our moral beliefs is not as straightforward as moral fictionalism requires.

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REFERENCE EXPRESSIONS IN OCCASIONAL POETRY OF P. O. HVIEZDOSLAV

Vrajová, Vladimíra
In: Motus in verbo : Collectanea disputationum doctorandorum quodlibetalium 1, p. 51 - 65. ISBN: 978-80-557-1962-7

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The paper focuses on the analysis of reference expressions in Hviezdoslav's occasional poetry, focusing on proper names, pronouns and less or more elaborate substantive expressions, which are functionally used in referring to literary portrayed characters – nationalists. From a methodological point of view, the analysis of reference expressions falls into the research field of stylistics, pragmatics, but also onomastics. The aim of the paper is to interpret the pragmatic function of referring to fictional individuals. The research sample consists of 30 poems, written between 1868 and 1920 and covering almost the entire period of author's artistic productivity.

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