This text is a review of Nikola Skledar’s book Philosophy and Life, but it also represents an attempt to critically outline the author’s theoretical and intelectual profile taking into account his other books. The main objective of the text is to present developed and original open anthropology which has existential, hermeneutical and humanist character in interpretation of the man’s historic subsistence. The text examines principal themes like: the relation between the philosophy and contemporary life, modern education/schooling and the philosophy of man, integral bio-ethics, philosophy towards religion and science, eros and thanatos, about the life after death, philosophical foundations of science, from the work of our philosophers, etc.