“A Critique of Global Ethics” is the newest philosophic book diving into issues deriving from the merger of politics with ethics, the latest book release by Montenegro’s Prime Minister, Dritan Abazovic, who, despite his involvement in politics, remains a committed and passionate scholar, an alumni and a Ph.D. holder from the University of Sarajevo, where he has demonstrated excellence by completing his studies in a short time and he is also a master degree holder in political philosophy from the University of Montenegro.
Dritan Abazovic is the author of a series of analytical and research articles on political and social sciences in leading international journals.
Prime Minister Edi Rama attended today the event to promote the latest book release in three languages, namely Albanian, Montenegrin, and English.
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Prime Minister Edi Rama: Frankly speaking, I wasn’t actually prepared to see such a seriously and meticulously hosted. On the other hand, please take into consideration the fact that I am attending the event both as a colleague and a friend of Abaz, as I already call him, yet I am the only one in this very hall, including the cameramen too, lacking a master degree and I should now comment on a Ph.D. holder.
Therefore, I very much hope will be generous enough and tolerate my low academic level. But beyond that, I believe it would be disingenuous if I were to tell you that I have read the book. I haven’t read the book yet! I received the book two days ago. It was really a nice surprise for me.
I didn’t know that Dritan was a scholar in this field and so serious in this commitment and given that he asked me to attend and not hesitate to comment, he actually provided me with an argument that compensates for the lack of my master degree.
It is definitely a privilege to be the friend if someone, who is a unique and unparalleled phenomenon in the Balkan politics. And I tell you why. This is not because he is a Ph.D. holder, as I am convinced that the Assembly of Albania houses many Ph.D. holders today – I haven’t counted them but I am convinced that the number of Ph.D. holders is higher than those of non-degree holders – but thanks to resorting to action he has had the courage to try and venture to deliver on something that nobody else has ever dared by establishing a political movement, which extends beyond being an ethnic one, and which has successfully done so, because it has survived centuries of prejudice and division between each other and to build a space where regardless of ethnicity, people come together as citizens.
Through his action, Dritan blends his ethics, his ethical sense towards society, the problems of society and the future, courageously overcoming the divisions and building a bridge as the movement is also called, because for me it is not a political party; it is a movement, a creative nucleus I very much hope will survive the time and set a role model for others in other territories, where coexistence between various ethnic groups has been going on for a very long time and has been consolidated as coexistence of the opposites. While Dritan proposes coexistence as strength, as a community of complementary forces that build up strength.
In Dritan’s attempt to build a bridge, which helps not only every representative of a different ethnic group to find a space for dialogue and interaction with others, but this bridge is also offered to society as a help to overcome long centuries as a whole community, as well as build an approach, with globalism serving for the good and not for the bad – I am going to put it that way – there are many possibilities and this Dritan’s bridge has its foundations precisely on this wisdom that tries to pour with empty vessels and develop another level of understanding and interaction between people.
The book’s epilogue features a quote that is somehow the continuity of what I already said a bit earlier, so I think that overcoming these two or three stages, the book presumably provides the opportunity so that these dilemmas are jointly tackled with the book’s author and other authors revealed here by the author himself, but at the final acknowledgments, Dritan quotes Pierre Hadot: “How a philosopher would find his way now that there are no more schools, there are no dogmas either, and the philosopher has been left alone?”
By asking this question, I think I can conclude my speech in this event to promote not just a book, but the need to delve a bit more and deal with the very pressing topic and the incredible complexity this book seeks to tackle, which of course is much more difficult and much more exhausting and apparently much less rewarding than dealing with the daily gossips, but this is a matter of choice.
It is not Dritan. Dritan is not alone. Dritan enjoys our support and, above all, Dritan has the hope that he best embodies as a unique political phenomenon in our region who has chosen the most difficult path, but perhaps due to the fact that he is the only one who has chosen the most difficult path, he has quite a few followers and maybe he will there are even more because there are always people who expect different solutions than the ones they are used to being offered.
Dritan Abaz, I wholeheartedly wish that you continue to be the guarantor of the bridge and that the bridge becomes wider and wider and that it radiates, not only electorally because that is the least important, but that it radiates regionally as a reflection where others find themselves to build other bridges, which can be political movements, can be social movements, can be academic movements, but to create the possibility that people, who have been doomed by history and the prejudices of history to be divided, can look at each other as people, as fellow citizens or as cohabitants in a time where the divisions of the past can produce many arguments to make today’s politics, but which represent the foundation of tomorrow’s destruction.
Thank you!
