Focus Pragensis IX - yearbook for the philosophy and phenomenology of religion

0346678 - FLÚ 2011 RIV CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Chvatík, Ivan
Jan Patočka's "Care for the Soul" in the "Nihilistic" World.
Focus Pragensis IX - yearbook for the philosophy and phenomenology of religion. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2009 - (Lyčka, M.), s. 51-60. ISBN 978-80-7298-448-0
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514
Keywords : Patočka * "history proper"
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

History up to present comprises, according to Patočka, rwo major periods. The dividing line is the birth of Christianity. Each of the two great periodsis defined by the by an epoche-making upheaval, or "conversion," a change in humans' understanding of themselves and the world. To rescue us from today's nihilistic decline, Patočka suggests nothing less than a new "gigantic conversion," "an unheard-of metanoein" that would thus be the third in the line of conversions.
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