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The author tries to redefine the core issue of intellectuals essence: what and who exactly is the intellectual by definition? Who are, very much concretely, intellectuals in the Slovenian social landscape? He develops a typology of four relatively heterogeneous types of intellectuals (educational, scientific, progressive and humanist), paying further attention to the ignored social role of the intellectual as an active citizen. He stresses that intellectuals have to be concerned with the public use of reason, deliberation on the goals of collective life, and the welfare of others. The intellectuals should hold up in society as an example of adherence to rationality. The author concludes that the intellectual as an active citizen issignificantly involved in the procedures of collective decision making, drawing attention to errors and premature conclusions, prejudices and rights, hate speech and discriminatory treatment, which primarily affi rm a progressive and humanist intellectual. V prispevku poskušam redefinirati osrednje vprašanje o bistvu intelektualca, kaj in kdo točno je po svoji definiciji, nato pa se sprašujem, kaj ali kdo je v slovenskem družbenem prostoru. Razvijam svojo tipologijo štirih razmeroma heterogenih vrst intelektualca (izobrazbeni, znanstveni, progresivni in humanistični) in znotraj ponujene taksonomije dodatno opozarjam na spregledano družbeno vlogo intelektualca kot dejavnega državljana. Ugotavljam, da so naloge intelektualcev tudi zagotavljanje in skrb za javno rabo uma in skrb za deliberacijo o ciljih skupnega življenja, ravnanje v dobro vseh in dajanje zgleda v družbi s svojo privrženostjo racionalnosti. Na koncu zaključim, da je intelektualec nekdo, ki bistveno sodeluje v postopkih sprejemanja skupnih odločitev, opozarja na napake in prehitre sklepe, predsodke in pravice, sovražni govor in diskriminatorne obravnave, s čimer afirmiram predvsem tip progresivnega in humanističnega intelektualca. |
