Ivo Urbančič (born 12 November 1930) is a Slovenian philosopher. He is considered to be one of the fathers of the phenomenological school in Slovenia. His role in the development of the philosophical thought is comparable to the one of Mihailo Đurić in Serbia or Vanja Sutlić in Croatia.
He was born as Ivan Urbančič in the village of Robič near Kobarid, in what was then the Italian administrative region of Julian March to a peasant Slovene family....
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Ivo Urbančič (born 12 November 1930) is a Slovenian philosopher. He is considered to be one of the fathers of the phenomenological school in Slovenia. His role in the development of the philosophical thought is comparable to the one of Mihailo Đurić in Serbia or Vanja Sutlić in Croatia.
He was born as Ivan Urbančič in the village of Robič near Kobarid, in what was then the Italian administrative region of Julian March to a peasant Slovene family. When he was still a child, his family left the region in order to escape Fascist persecution and moved to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. They spent six years in the village of Bistrica in south-west Macedonia, where a colony of Slovene immigrants from the Julian March was established. In 1937, they moved to Slovenia, in the village of Črešnjevec near Slovenska Bistrica. There, the young Ivo met with Jože Pučnik, with whom he established a lifelong friendship.
After finishing the technical high school in Kranj, he frequented a one-year course in...
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