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Papers by Andjelija Milic

ГОДИШЊАК ЗА ФИЛОЗОФИЈУ, 2021

Part of the Department of Philosophy’s Project concerned the inquiry into the students’ attitudes... more Part of the Department of Philosophy’s Project concerned the inquiry into the students’ attitudes towards religion and transcendent entities. Parallelly with tracking these stands comes the attempt of tracking the changes that occured over the period of two semestres. Therefore, this article represents both a review and an analysis of either occurence or absence of changes, with the final aim of verifying whether and to what extent the relevant BA courses dealing with the mentioned topics could influence the formation of changes in the students’ attitudes.

Philotheos, 2020

This paper develops the meaning of a doctor in the wing of the Christian tradition, by starting t... more This paper develops the meaning of a doctor in the wing of the Christian tradition, by starting the thesis from the best and first known physician in the New Testament: St. Luke. Then the premise he was even in a doctor is questioned. However, the whole paper continues to follow the symbolism St. Luke indubitably has not only as one of the Evangelists, but parallelly as a physician, so it then questions what such an expertise would mean when one of the establishing figures is attached to a particular profession. Medical effort is then connected to the notion of Christus medicus as a primary healer. From that point on, a question of the miraculous healing and its effect on human approach to God emerges. This problem occurs when freedom as a central to the acceptance of God's deeds is installed. In this case, I discuss it on the grounds of a passage from The Grand Inquisitor. Finally, the problem of freedom in the multifaceted context of healing is to be circled in the discussion about the problematic positions both doctors and patients encounter, and ultimately medicine itself.

Nauka i savremeni univerzitet 8, 2019

Philosophical reminders: from skholḗ to the radical praxis The paper represents examination of h... more Philosophical reminders: from skholḗ to the radical praxis

The paper represents examination of how we conceptualise time through the ancient notion of skholḗ.
This leads to a twofold inquiry: one concerning the status of critical thinking, and the other concerning
the gap produced by the tendency towards the activity per se and experimentally founded knowledge,
primarily characteristic of the natural and techical sciences, as opposed to the humanistic ones. With
this, the domain of humanistic education significance opens, and primarily so through Giambattista
Vico’s view of it. The conclusion itself concerns a summary of all instances that stemmed from skholḗ
as having time for. What follows from that is a closer explanation of the general humanistic idea as the
main frame for the global deliberation of all individual and collective questions of substantial value.

Key words: skholḗ, time, critical thinking, humanistic education, Vico.

Systasis, 2019

There have been many scholarly works on each of Plato's and Aris-totle's construction of soul, bo... more There have been many scholarly works on each of Plato's and Aris-totle's construction of soul, both considering them separately and conjoint-ly. This time, my aim is to posit meeting and parting points of their views in the light of movement as a key underlying component that constitutes not only a visual metaphor, but depicts a broader pace which mirrors many aspects of their general philosophies. Therefore, I will discuss relevant medical, biological and ontological aspects of their theories while in those versatile domains reflecting back on most of the relevant points from their corpuses as well as the parallel kinetic aspects which are semi-tacitly in the formative background. Also, according to the context, I will focus either on Plato or Aristotle more, comparing the other one when needed. At the end of the paper, I will introduce some common points for the ancient period at hand, focusing on some mytho-biological beliefs and stands actual at the time, hoping to provide a broader frame of reference for the main examined question.

Dreams as the medium for miracles of healing and their interpretation in Byzantium, 2018

In this paper I will try to reflect upon the phenomenon of miracle through the experience of the ... more In this paper I will try to reflect upon the phenomenon of miracle through the
experience of the saints in both Orthodox and Catholic tradition. It is an inextricable part
signifying divine intervention, most frequently having the saints as its medium. The main focus
is on the miracles of healing, which are at the same time possibly the most famous and
common miracles witnessed. Also a recurring motive is a dream which professes a future,
sometimes sudden and unexpected turn of events.

Language and essence: a dream of lingual mirroring of reality through centuries, 2017

The paper inspects the relationship between language and reality from the perspective of Borges’... more The paper inspects the relationship between language and reality from the perspective of Borges’ stories: "Aleph", "The Library of Babel" and
"The Analytical language of John Wilkins".
Furthermore, we will follow the same line of thought in Leibniz and see if some other authors, like Jung, offered a completely different insight into the matter at hand.

The concept of evil observed through complementary opposites in early Patristic thought, 2016

There is an inevitable duality in a domain of human life. Firstly, in the aspect of body and soul... more There is an inevitable duality in a domain of human life. Firstly, in the aspect of body and soul, followed by the relationship of micro and macro cosmos. Between these opposing tendencies, said in Heideggerian way, lies the authentic existence brought through the anticipation of death via existential anxiety, trembling, nausea and hope. When it comes to Christianity, these paradoxical states of existence separated by the difference in the essences of God and man, transcendent and transcendental, seem to have the possibility of being resolved through the pairs of terms: simultaneity/ striving, inclination/ disinclination, intellectual/ mystical, since they are already synthetized in God and human constitutional potency. In the light of these quasi paradoxes, we will also try to demonstrate how evil cannot disprove God’s Omnibenevolence and to display a potential comparative analysis in the Christianity itself, as well as those concerning Christian and Existentialists’ teachings.

The motive of death as the otherness necessary for transformation: a case of Plato's "Apology" and "The Scaffold" by Chingiz Aytmatov, 2016

There is something peculiar in human tendency towards death which we necessarily discover as inev... more There is something peculiar in human tendency towards death which we necessarily discover as inevitable. Following in the footsteps of Plato's "Apology" and Aytmatov's "The Scaffold", we strive to investigate the motives that shape our lives in a way which leaves a literally eternal mark, echoing for centuries, therefore pertaining to a valuable, life-defining discussion. Shedding light on the key points and characters from the aforementioned works, I would like to put forward a philosophical and literary analysis, thus giving a new mark of this synthesis of two perspectives, approaching them from the classical value of their symbolism.

Reflecting the notion of individuation: from Kierkegaard to cyberpunk, 2015

Published in the collection of works "Social (de)constructions of identity" from the conference: ... more Published in the collection of works "Social (de)constructions of identity" from the conference: "Days of free thought, Sremski Karlovci 2015"

(Im)possibility of apophatism in the age of nihilism, 2015

The purpose of this paper is to present the relationship between apophatic theology and contempor... more The purpose of this paper is to present the relationship between apophatic theology and contemporary nihilism, thus explaining the key differences among these two strivings; both when it comes to the historical causation of transition from one way of thinking to another. Taking as a reference eminent philosophers and theologians who cultivated the spirit of apophatic (negative) theology, then its transformation into the rationalism-based proofs for the existence of God, which occurred by the end of the Middle Ages and in the beginning of New Ages, we notice that a final and definite termination with this line of thinking happened with Nietzsche. Therefore, we will strive to demonstrate what the nihilism of thinking actually means in the practice of our everyday lives.

Talks by Andjelija Milic

July, 2019

"Cultural dialogue" is a famous part of a local show "Apostrophe" where two interlocutors answer ... more "Cultural dialogue" is a famous part of a local show "Apostrophe" where two interlocutors answer briefly on various questions. My colleague Bojan Blagojević and I were a pair of invited guests for the occasion of 7.7.2019. show.
(from the beginning to 4:45)

September, 2018

Podcast "Protok" hosted me and my colleague Jelica Stošić to talk about current educational refor... more Podcast "Protok" hosted me and my colleague Jelica Stošić to talk about current educational reforms in Serbia which include the change of obligatory status philosophy and sociology used to have in all secondary schools until recently. More broadly, we were talking about the need of humanistic education for engineers and people in general.

The podcast is in Serbian, so sorry for the limited audience.

Reminiscing upon understanding the Eucharist in the time of Covid-19, in the contexts of health-i... more Reminiscing upon understanding the Eucharist in the time of Covid-19, in the contexts of health-illness paralleling with life-death, and current turmoil in Serbian orthodox world upon the matter.

September, 2019

A critique of the (local) government upon a semi-legal cutting of linden trees in the center of N... more A critique of the (local) government upon a semi-legal cutting of linden trees in the center of Niš and a more thorough analysis on how a cutting of a couple of trees can at the same time represent both all those issues that come with current Serbian government and also what an institution those who understand what a "citizen" means can make.

March, 2019

A comment upon the talk a pediatrician Olivera Savić from Novi Sad gave, supporting the anti-vacc... more A comment upon the talk a pediatrician Olivera Savić from Novi Sad gave, supporting the anti-vaccine doctrine, and the implications such talks have, especially when they come from those holding a medical degree.

Glas, 2019

On pdf pages 42-43 of the journal "Glas" of Niš diocese, I give a reflection upon two sides of a ... more On pdf pages 42-43 of the journal "Glas" of Niš diocese, I give a reflection upon two sides of a man through A. P. Chekhov novels "He understood" and "Beautiful has to have limits as well".