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Des deux manières de concevoir le sens de la philosophie
Des deux manières de concevoir le sens de la philosophie

Author(s): Jan Patočka
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Societatea Română de Fenomenologie
Keywords: Jan Patocka; Emanuel Rádl; Aristotle; political philosophy; intellectualism; responsibility

Summary/Abstract: The essay “On the Two Conceptions of the Meaning of Philosophy”, published in 1936, links up with other early writings such as “Remarks on the Wordly and Other-Wordly Stance of Philosophy” (1934) reflecting Patoμka’s initial approach to the question of philosophers’ moral commitment. He distinguishes here an “autocentric” (Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel) and a “hetero-” or “sociocentric” (Plato, Enlightenment philosophers, Comte, Nietzsche) conception of the meaning of philosophy, characterizes its possible influence on human life as either “apperceptive” or “magical” and concludes on a vision of “autonomous life” as “the divinity struggling with its intrinsic peril” which heralds later writings on freedom and sacrifice

  • Issue Year: VII/2007
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 71-88
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: French