The new yearbook for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy. XIV- 2015, Religion, war and the crisis of modernity: a special issue dedicated to the philosophy of Jan Patočka

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Chvatík, Ivan
Jan Patočka's Studies on Masaryk.
The new yearbook for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy. XIV- 2015, Religion, war and the crisis of modernity: a special issue dedicated to the philosophy of Jan Patočka. London: Routledge, 2015 - (Hagedorn, L.; Dodd, J.), s. 136-160. ISBN 978-1-138-92396-6
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Keywords : Czech philosophy * Masaryk * Patočka * phenomenology
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

The article examines the reasons why Patočka in his last essay (On Masaryk's Philosophy of Religion) once again returns to the philosophy of T. G. Masaryk, the founding father of the Czechoslovak Republic, after having dealt with his ideas many times before. Reviewing the development of Patočka's philosophical oeuvre, the argumentation shows that he is compelled to again discuss Masaryk because of their common preoccupation with the crisis of European mankind. It is the relation of his crisis to the realm of Christian religion that is crucial for both thinkers. Yet different from Masaryk and from the young Patočka himself who started his investigations as a believing Christian, that solution presented in his late essays is so diverging from anything Christian that he himself calls it heretical.
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