The life of Vosylius Sezemanas and his critical realism
ENThe philosophical and pedagogical activity of Vosylius Sezemanas is closely connected with the dramatic cultural and spiritual changes in the life of Lithuania which he significantly influenced. Time does not devalue the significance of his work: on the contrary, it reveals its importance and demands its analysis and creative assimilation. Philosophy, more than any other branch of knowledge, depends on the personal life and experience of its author. For the real object of philosophy, the end to which it strives, is human life itself together with all its phenomena. Human reality, its historical currents and social conflicts have their own order and specific truth which can be seen only by those whose outlook is not confined to the limits of their personal life and reduced to the consideration of accidental phenomena, those who are sensitive to the essential values of human existence. Philosophy is the awareness of these values and also the inevitable companion of their historical development. Although it never reaches its final end, the work of its great authors reveals the relations and legacy which permit progress towards that end.
