UPBRINGING

MODELS AND DILEMMAS

Abstract

The architecture of the notion of upbringing is
contradictory. From the point of view of time, the upbringing is a
notion that expresses the importance of the moment (Borges claimed
in one of his poems that life consists of moments) and the importance
of the eschatological (Apostle Paul said that it is not conformed to this
world, since the ephemeral/vain cannot be compared to what is
Eternal. Father Justin Popović claimed that the victory over the
attraction of the sin of the moment is precondition to salvation, since
one ought to behave in such a way that the future determines our past
and our history). Upbringing is like liturgy (writing in stone), which is
read in the past, today and always.