Beranism

Founders of Beranism

Vlastimil Beran

Julius Jahoda

Beranism is an ontologically monistic moral philosophy which serves as the state philosophy of the Prime Republic of Ostrozava. It originates from the works of early 20th-century Ostrozavan philosophers Vlastimil Beran and Julius Jahoda. Existing in tandem with economic and materialist ideas derived from Wernerism, Beranism instead focuses on metaphysical issues such as free will, the nature of the Absolute, and the meaning of life. In writing, Beran referred to his work as aiming to find "global spiritual consensus"; Beran and Jahoda both did not frame their philosophies as a formulation, but rather as a discovery of existing natural systems.

Concieved after members of the Wernerist Ostrozavan academic underground went on a subsequently much-propagandized "journey of discovery" across the world in the mid-late 1890s, Beranism was the result of syncretic and even scientific observation of the world's various religions. For Beran, the focal point of interest were the native religions of Norumbria, particularly the belief in the Great Mystery varyingly espoused by Wakato, Olkota, Kahnawà꞉ke, and Okomi peoples in Enyama and Gristol-Serkonos. Jahoda, on the other hand, focused on the Dharmacakra faith he saw in Ayvana and Jhengtsang. Upon returning to Karsko, various activists which had taken their own individual journeys abroad coalesed in the Three Forks Tavern (Ostrozavan: Hospoda Třividlice), where several intense philosophical discussions took place, attempting to outline commonalities observed between the individual members' observations about global religion, and the infant but revolutionary academic fields of psychoanalysis and quantum theory.

Fascinated by the discussions, Beran and Jahoda saw that the other members of their circle of friends, such as Vladan Vítek, had taken a more immediate interest in the emancipatory struggle, by 1900 already attempting to organize the working class to strike, in the nascent beginnings of the Crimson Revolution. Seeing the infant movements beginning to take steam, but taking note that many of the Ostrozavan peasantry had a noted "split between fanaticism or cynical indifference", Beran and Jahoda began writing O Původu Boha (Ang: On the Origin of God), widely considered to be the central text of what became Beranism.

Beranism has had a profound impact on global academia, having influenced many fields, including archaeology, art history and theory, anthropology, media studies, science studies, political science, theater, history, sociology, cultural studies, education, economics, ethics, criminology, geography, literary criticism, film theory, psychology, and philosophy.