Recalling Masaryk’s The Czech Question

Humanity and Politics on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century

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Volume Editors:
Jan Svoboda
and
Aleš Prázný
This book presents T. G. Masaryk’s efforts to shape the identity of a small nation in late the 19th and early 20th century. It features contributions from leading Czech scholars who analyse Masaryk’s efforts 120 years later. Masaryk is considered the most important figure in modern Czech history. Drawing on the ideas of his ideological predecessors and humanists, he wanted to integrate the Czech nation into the family of advanced world nations in line with international intellectual trends. Masaryk was the first in world history to fulfil the Platonic ideal of a philosopher who founded a state.
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2023
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Jan Svoboda received his Ph.D. from the Philosophical Faculty at Palacký University Olomouc in 2015 and is currently a research fellow at the Department for the Study of Modern Czech Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His publications include Masarykův realismus a filosofie pozitivismu (Masaryk's Realism and Philosophy of Positivism) (Prague, 2017) and 'Whitehead’s Interpretation of Plato’s “Receptacle” and the Parallels with the Concept of “Eternal Objects”', in: Nóema: Rivista online di filosofia, (2020).

Aleš Prázný received his habilitation from Charles University in Prague in 2016 and has been an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice since 2002. His publications include O smyslu politiky. Politická filosofie Hannah Arendtové (The Meaning of Politics. The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt) (Pardubice, 2014) and 'New Education and Dewey´s Pragmatism', in: Pragmatism Today (2021).
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
  Jan Svoboda and Aleš Prázný

part 1
The Historical Context of Masaryk’s Czech Question
1 Understanding the Debate around the ‘Czech Question’ in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
  Miroslav Hroch

2 Modern Czech State-Formation
  Robert Kvaček

3 The Czech Question in Its Time
  Miloš Havelka

part 2
Ethics as the Heart of Philosophy
4 Modernism and Transcendence from the Perspective of Masaryk’s Realism
  Jan Svoboda

5 Masaryk’s Ethics
  Wendy Drozenová

6 T. G. Masaryk’s Thoughts on Ján Kollár’s Idea of Humanity
  Vasil Gluchman

part 3
The Pro-Masaryk View of the Czech Question
7 The Legacy of Masaryk’s Idea of Enlightened Humanism
  Vlastimil Zátka

8 The Czech Question and the Principle of Federalism
  Milan Znoj

9 Masaryk’s Czech Question and the Idea of the Czech State
  Miloslav Bednář

10 The Czech Question as the Task of a Humanist Education
  Aleš Prázný

part 4
The Anti-Masaryk View of the Czech Question
11 Masaryk’s Philosophy of Czech History from the Perspective of Popper’s Critigue of Historicism
  Otakar A. Funda

12 Criticism of the Czech Question
  Martin Šimsa

13 The Anti-political Nation in Bohemia and Moravia
  Václav Bělohradský

part 5
The Word of a Politician in Exile
14 Humanism as the Motivation of Politics or Masaryk’s Czech Question Today
  Karel Hrubý

part 6
The Word of a Pastor
15 T. G. Masaryk and Our Times
  Jakub S. Trojan

Epilogue of Chairman of the Sekyra Foundation The Return of the Czech Question
  Luděk Sekyra

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