Švec, O.: Czech Philosophy of XXth Century in Context
Osnova témat
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There are two excerpts from Masaryk´s "Suicide and Civilization". The first part deals with the core of Masaryk´s analysis of the Modern suicide tendency. (pp. 162-171). In the second part, Masaryk proposes his remedy for this tendency (pp. 221-231).
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Jan Patočka - Spiritual Crisis of European Humanity in Husserl and Masaryk - to be tought online on March 24th
Our seminar resumes online on Tuesday, March 24th. Let´s meet on jit.si at 10:50 on the following address https://meet.jit.si/CzechPhilosophyofXXthCenturyinContext
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Patočka´s short essay from 1936 will be the object of our interpretation and discussion during the seminar.
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Optional reading allowing for better understanding of Husserl´s concept of the "crisis"
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Please read the pages 1-11 and 19-22 (according to the book pagination). You can skip the subchapter 3 entitled "Attempt at a Historical Typology of Possible Solution" (pp. 11-19).
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Please answer the following questions about Patočka´s analysis in 8-10 sentences:
What are the reasons and symptoms of the lack of “unified world-view” according to Patočka? (see pp. 6-11)
What is Patočka´s solution to the split between the Natural world and the World of Science? (see pp. 19-21)
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Please answer shortly (6 sentences or so) the following two questions dealing with Patočka´s heretical approach to history:
Why is Patočka denying that history starts with writing?
Explain the simultaneous origin of politics, philosophy and history and the link among the polemical nature of both politics and philosophy and discontinuous nature of history.
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Please focus mostly on pages 1-17, dedicated to "the World of Pseudoconrete" and "the Spiritual and Intellectual Reproduction of Reality".
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Please answer as shortly as possible the following two questions based on your reading of Kosik:
1)What does Kosík takes over from Heidegger´s and what does he criticizes in Heidegger´s account of Care and Concern (Sorge und Besorgen, here translated as Procuring)? (pp. 37-42)
2)On what grounds is it possible to disrupt the repetition of everydayness with its average familiarity of everything? (42-48)