Sazetak

Abstract:

We live in a society that is considered modern, globalized, secularized, and technically progressive. This society brings about numerous advantages, as well as certain disadvantages. In spite of all these great and thriving technical achievements, there are still a lot of crises and tensions, and there are fewer and fewer real answers and concrete solutions to ever-increasing number of challenges. For this reason, we are of the opinion that an awareness of responsibility, as well as a responsible action of each individual should be established. By “responsibility” we mean a spiritual and thought mover in bridging these artificially built misunderstandings, crises, and tensions. An immense, even the most important role in this process of bridging pertains to religions and religious communities. Namely, they have for centuries been a heirdom of fundamental values, by means of which the responsibility and the care for every human being can be mediated. The aim of this investigation is to critically consider, by a philosophical approach, the role of religions and religious communities in mediation of responsibility and responsible action, as well as their contribution in this mediating.

Key words: ethics, philosophy, corruption, responsibility, greed, religion, secularization, contemporary society