TRUTH, RESPONSIBILITY AND THE POLITICAL. JAN PATOČKA’S VIEW ON LIVING IN TRUTH
TRUTH, RESPONSIBILITY AND THE POLITICAL. JAN PATOČKA’S VIEW ON LIVING IN TRUTH

Summary/Abstract: Being one of the spokespersons of the civic manifestos Charta 77, Czech Philosopher Jan Patočka (1907–1977) passed away after repeating interrogation. For human dignity, Patočka stands himself in truth infront of violence. What is the origin of responsibility which resists injustice?2 What is the significanceof living in truth for being confronted with violence? In the text of Charta 77 «The Obligation to ResistInjustice» (1977), Patočka points out that morality of humanity is the ground of obligation.3 Then, whatis the relationship between humanity and moral obligation? Regarding to the question above, this paperattempts to investigate the relationship of responsibility and living in truth, and demonstrates that there isan ontological responsibility of insistence implicated in living in truth, through illustrating the structureof manifestation of problematization. Socratic care of soul is the practice of familiarizing citizens withproblematization through reflective dialogue as pluralization of otherness (doxai) of others. Othernessunveiled is the beginning of thinking and of the formation of polis. At last, with the analysis of worldlinessof world as manifestation of plurality, the article will show that the responsibility of living in truth, asresponding to plurality of world and realizes problematization which reforms community as polis withliberation and unity, is philosophical-political revolutionary.

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