The Legacy of Masaryk’s Idea of Enlightened Humanism

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Legacy of Masaryk’s Idea of Enlightened Humanism
Original language description
The essay examines Masaryk¨s notion of Enlightened humanism and freedom in his Czech Question and Humanistic Ideals, major contribution to Czech philosophical discourse of the nineteenth century. The work shows that the aim of Masaryk´s concept was to complete the 'unfinished programmˇ of cultural and political revival of the Czech nation and to to resolve the political crisis of that time using the ´idea of humanism´, which Masaryk viewed as the highest metaphysical and teleological principle legitimising the meaning of Czech and world history, which Masaryk, like Kant, placed above politics, culture, science, and law. Another part of the study empasises that Masaryk hightlighted the timeless importance of humanistic ideas, pointed to their ethical foundations, and described them as ahistorical quantities with universal validity. In conclution, the author emphasises that Masaryk¨s notion of the "idea of humanism" as the philosophical foundation of Czech national revival and modern Czech and world history remaines valuable and inspiring to this day.Czech society in both the conditional spheres of the secular and historical, as well as the unconditional realms of the ideal and metaphysical.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Recalling Masaryk’s The Czech Question. Humanity and Politics on the Threshold of the Twenty- First Century
ISBN
978-90-04-53490-2
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
123-139
Number of pages of the book
279
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden / Boston
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