The Relevance of Humanities in Masaryk’s System of Sciences
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angličtina
Original language name
The Relevance of Humanities in Masaryk’s System of Sciences
Original language description
This contribution is dedicated to the intellectual legacy of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first Czechoslovak president. It focuses on a system of sciences Masaryk developed in the 1880s. Within this classification, humanities occupy a special position. It is also in this area, specifically in psychology and sociology, that he feels best qualified to offer a theoretical foundation. Masaryk views psychology along the lines outlined by John Stuart Mill and his own Viennese teacher, Franz Brentano, as an autonomous science that deals with a specific type of phenomena. As the starting point of Masaryk’s system of sciences, psychology has an integral metaphysical dimension, which affects Masaryk’s concept of ethics and ultimately also of religion. In particular, Masaryk incorporates ethics into a broader framework of psychological subjects. The most essential task of sociology is then to support ethics against the background of a narrowly conceived dynamics of social practice into which any person, being a zoon politicon, is inherently integrated. Humanities, that is, sciences about humans and their morally conducted social lives, cannot be reduced to, or even quantitatively compared with, mathematics or sciences that deal with living or non-living nature. Although humanities do use objective findings of the exact sciences where necessary, their focus, given by these sciences’ specific nature, is on phenomena sui generis. According to Masaryk, the main importance of humanities is ultimately, in their practical consequences, value-oriented, ethical, and when assessing and evaluating humanities, one cannot disregard this aspect of their nature or quantitatively neutralise it.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Towards a New Research Era. A Global Comparison of Research Distortions
ISBN
978-90-04-54493-2
Number of pages of the result
15
Pages from-to
156-170
Number of pages of the book
256
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
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