Patočka's Care of the Soul Reconsidered : Performing the Soul Through Movement
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F17%3A10368461" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/17:10368461 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10746-017-9425-9" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10746-017-9425-9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10746-017-9425-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10746-017-9425-9</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Patočka's Care of the Soul Reconsidered : Performing the Soul Through Movement
Original language description
Care of the soul is arguably the core concept in Patočka's phenomenology. However, what is the soul? In this paper I seek to determine its ontological meaning, connecting the concept of caring for the soul with that of the movement of existence. Starting from Patočka's affirmative presentation of Aristotle's criticism of Plato, I interrogate the "orthodox" Platonic concept of caring for the soul and develop an alternative notion, putting emphasis on action in the world. I demonstrate the impossibility of identifying the third movement with true existence, or with the care for the soul, whether conceived as the performance of philosophy or as political action. Finally, I outline a reinterpreted concept of care for the soul in which the (active) self-moving of the soul is not ontologically prior to (passive) responding. The soul is inherent in action; and it is free only as responding to the world and responsible only in being free.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Human Studies
ISSN
0163-8548
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
40
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
233-247
UT code for WoS article
000401554300005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85018476178