Apocalypse without revelation: Svetozar Stojanovic on the possibility of self-destruction of humanity

The possibility of self-destruction of the humanity presents a constant accompanying topic in all books of Svetozar Stojanović written after his doctoral dissertation in metaethics. Whatever topics being elaborated, there would always be something on this matter. At the beginning these were only incidental observations and a possible standpoint on the main topic, but later it became more often a distinctive field of observation or even a prevailing perspective. In this paper the author reconstructs considerations of Stojanović on this topic in the light of his apocalyptic terminology. Since Stojanović refers to apocalypse in the secular sense, I name it, in a straightforward opposition to its original meaning, the apocalypse without revelation. It is the apocalypse in which the cataclysmic aspect is the only left and I demonstrate that this term follows Stojanović’s original intentions faithfully. In the paper, I present and comment on all the stages of Stojanović’s work on this topic, thus claiming that it constitutes the only constant in philosophical and political phases of his thought. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179064: Istraživanje klimatskih promena na životnu sredinu: praćenje uticaja, adaptacija i ublažavanje, Potprojekat: Etika i politika životne sredine: institucije, tehnike i norme pred izazovom promena prirodnog okruženja i projekat br. 43007: Istorija srpske filozofije