jug was born in a wealthy peasant-merchant family in solkan, slovenia, then a suburb of the austro-hungarian town of gorizia. he attended the grammar school in gorizia and then enrolled at the university of ljubljana where he studied philosophy under the supervision of the slovene phenomenologist philosopher france veber. a fervent reader of kant, nietzsche and freud, jug developed his own philosophy based on the supremacy of the will and the unappealable adherence to ethics and personal responsibility.