Patočkova naděje v duchovním rozlomu druhé republiky
Patočka's Hope in the Spiritual Break Up of the Second Czechoslovak Republic

Summary/Abstract: The third commentary on the article "Česká naděje na duchovní vlast" [The Czech Hopes for a Spiritual Homelnad] by the philosopher Jan Patočka examines the place of Patočka’s contemporary reflections on the post-Munich crisis in the cultural and spiritual framework of the Second Czechoslovak Republic. He focuses on Patočka’s criticism of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic against the backdrop of Czech spiritual development, on his distant attitude towards the national conservative revolution carried out by the regime of the Second Republic and on the philosopher’s conception of hope in the context of the contemporary search for solutions. He points to the central importance of the idea of a European education with its tendency towards universalism for the thought of Jan Patočka, who found in it a hopeful perspective for Czech inner renewal and spiritual endeavour.

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