Joint review
Prof. Dr. of Sociology Predrag Radenović and
Prof. Dr. of Economics Milovan Stanišić
Belgrade, July 8, 2001
As nominated reviewers, we are free to present our review of the study by author Aleksandar Šarović: The Humanism – a Philosophical-Ethical-Political-Economic Study of the Development of the Society, which includes the following matters:
Chapter I: Analysis of the Natural State, with a focus on the man and the society, mainly elaborating these issues from philosophy.
Chapter II: The Process of Alienation, with a focus on the aspects of the psychology of alienation, but also that of sociology.
Chapter III: This chapter has three sub-chapters. The first presented phenomenon is humanism, which holds a particularly central position in the study, as it provides the critical determinant and all processes of humanism. Further, in the study, the author discusses, according to his own criteria, the bases of humanism policy and economy – the first sub-chapter (the price of labour, labour distribution, commodity price, money, working cash assets, development of economy, income distribution, use of real estate and collective consumption).
Then, in the second sub-chapter, the highly complex issues are discussed: the disalienation of associated communes, the pooling of policies, the pooling of economy, and the association of states. Finally, in the third sub-chapter, expectations of the new system are projected in a highly ambitious way.
The primary characteristic of the study is its contemporariness and broad scope. Although the study is mainly of a philosophic and economic nature, and although the author’s own views, sometimes utopian, are presented, the manuscript gives an impression of integrity. Such an impression is mainly due to the logical sequence in presenting humanism, its essence, concepts, and interpretation of social development, without citing other views of verified researchers.
In some parts, the manuscript contains a number of short characteristics, which may lead to the danger of simplification. However, the basis of the author’s determination is his understanding of humanism as a deep democratic ideology and philosophical-sociological-economic teaching.