Patočkova dějinná Evropa
Patočka’s History of Europe

Summary/Abstract: The philosophical outreach of Patočka s phenomenology is far too deep to be fully explained for example by the programme manifesto of Charter 77. The author therefore inclines to the opinion of Pavel Rezek s in his work PHILOSOPHY AND THE POLICY OF KITSCH, stating that the dissidents quest for “life in truth” was rather a willingness to live in conflict. What is then dateless in Patočka? It certainly is the genuine mergence of Heideggerian phenomenology and the Greek philosophical maxim, which is care for children. This care gives the European civilization the necessity of permanent finding itself in a crisis. Europe and her legacy have undoubtedly been undergoing a fateful period. Yet, it would be interesting if true came Patočka’s words on future unique position of East-European countries which will march in the front of protection of the best traditions of the European spirit, for it is them who experienced the cathartic bath of suffering.

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