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Life

Vranicki was born in 1922, in Benkovac, Croatia. During World War Two he fought with the National Liberation Army against the Fascist occupation of Yugoslavia. He received a diploma in philosophy from the University of Zagreb in 1947 and earned his PhD from the University in Belgrade in 1951. From 1964 to 1966 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, and rector of the Zagreb University from 1972 to 1976. Vranicki became president of the Yugoslav Society for Philosophy in 1966, and in 1973 he was elected as a member of the Croat Academy of Sciences and Arts. http://www. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... Philosopher in Meditation (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a field of study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, in which people ask questions such as whether God exists, whether knowledge is possible, and what makes actions right or wrong. ... Zagreb at night, from Sljeme Zagreb cathedral St. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

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Major works

He was interested in the problems of humanism, history and freedom, and his major works are: Humanism is a broad category of active ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on our ability to determine what is right using the qualities innate to humanity, particularly rationality. ... For other senses of this word, see history (disambiguation). ... Political freedom is the right, or the capacity, of self-determination as an expression of the individual will. ...

• Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1958)
• History of Marxism (1961, 3 volumes)
• Karl Marx: The Development of His Thought
• Marxism and Socialism (1979)
• Philosophical Studies (1979)
• The Socialist Alternative (1982)
• Philosophy of History (1988)

External links

• On the Problem of Practice by Predrag Vranicki
• In memoriam by Ivan KUVAČIĆ in Novi list
• Nin, In memoriam (In Serbian)