The crisis of modern man in the light of Masaryk’s national philosophy

0566308 - FLÚ 2023 RIV PL eng J - Journal Article
Svoboda, Jan
The crisis of modern man in the light of Masaryk’s national philosophy.
Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe). Roč. 12, 3/4 (2022), s. 173-182. ISSN 1338-5615. E-ISSN 2453-7829
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/15
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : crisis of modern man and nation * national emancipation * classification and systematization of sciences * irreligiosity * ethics * humanism * realism * theism * anthropism
OECD category: Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Impact factor: 0.7, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2022-0012

From the very beginnings of his thought, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was convinced that modern man, and likewise the culturally and politically emancipated Czech nation, was in a deep existential crisis closely linked with the spread of irreligiosity. Masaryk gradually came to believe that this crisis could be positively overcome on two levels. On a theoretical level, he relied on his specific classification and systematization of the sciences. On a practical level, which was directly based on his notion of positive sciences and a strictly rational scientific approach, it was a matter of developing a new direction and method, which he characteristically conceived of as realism. On the eve of the First World War, Masaryk’s position became understandably radicalized. He distanced himself from a more objectivist view of religion and countered theism with a scientific and philosophical anthropism.
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