Concept
University of Belgrade
Overview
The University of Belgrade (Serbian: Универзитет у Београду / Univerzitet u Beogradu) is a public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments by 1838 to form a single university. The university has around 59,600 enrolled students and over 4,600 academic staff members. Since its founding, the university has educated more than 378,000 bachelors, approximately 25,100 master's, 29,000 specialists, and 14,670 doctors. The university comprises 31 faculties, 12 research institutes, the university library, and 9 university centres. The faculties are organized into four groups: social sciences and humanities; medical sciences; natural sciences and mathematics; and technological sciences.
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In the ancient philosophy, whatever was taught concerning the nature either of the human mind or of the Deity, made a part of the system of physics. Those beings, in whatever their essence might be supposed to consist, were parts of the great system of the universe, and parts, too, productive of the most important effects. Whatever human reason could either conclude or conjecture concerning them, made, as it were…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Further it will have to continue over a sufficiently long period of time to allow of the risk of its becoming stable and traditional. In adult education already the pupil comes for a short period, learns Communism, reading and writing--there is hardly time to give him much more--and returns to leaven the army or his native village. In achieving this the Bolsheviks are already doing a very important and valuable…
Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
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With all its dignity the University gave me the horrors, as a building. I am glad that I had nothing to learn in it. One cannot imagine such a narrow compass for a school, even though, as the student of a German university, one may have suffered a great deal on the benches of the Auditorium. The anatomical theatre is a perfect model of the art of pressing students together. The audience are piled one above another…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy
Close in meaning to University of Belgrade; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed University of Belgrade
- Judith Butler
- Umberto Eco
- Mihailo Marković
- Branislav Petronijević
- Christos Yannaras
- Ksenija Atanasijević
- Predrag Vranicki
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- Philology
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- North Macedonia
- Grading in education
- Age of Enlightenment
- World War II
- Africa
- Belgrade
- Skopje
- Novi Sad
- Mihailo Marković
- Branislav Petronijević
- Dimitrije Tucović
Place in the tradition
Part of Yugoslav philosophy.