Born in 1941. in Budapes. Traditional philosopher. As soon as he begun his studies of reformation theology, he had to put them on hold, since he was sent to prison because a single statement he made and he was accused of "regime disruption"; still he was only there for 4 months. Afterwards he contacted the Buddhist mission, he was a student, then a teacher (not clear if a teacher of Buddhism or in general). In that time he changed about 20 jobs, ranging from waitering to asphalt worker. He did graduate Catholic theology in the end and got a PhD with his work "Light of space in the man" (1975). When the political situation got better, he became a famous lecturer and teacher with diverse subjects: relation of being and consciousness from the angle of Eastern metaphysical traditions; cosmical and metaphysical derivation of man, his antrophological structure; mortality and immortality; relations of knowing and acting; left-wing politics and traditionalist thought; freedom, democracy and liberalism; society and state; faith and knowledge; metaphysics of sexuality; Christianity and universal tradition... His most known work is "Traditionality and understanding of being" (1995). He's the only expert on Béla Hamvas' work who's also critical towards some of his views.
I once mentioned his name in one Hungarian magazine, as one of the writers I've translated, they've asked me to leave him out, because it would make me look bad: "He's a right-winger". A label that used to mean that the judgement is already made, which means that the situation in many heads didn't change much.
Sava Babić
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