Pojem dejín a dejinnosti v Patočkovej filozofii
The Concept of History and Historicity in Patočka’s Philosophy

Author(s): Róbert Stojka
Subject(s): Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of History
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: History; Historicity; Negative Platonism; Care of the Soul;
Summary/Abstract: An inevitable part of Patočka’s philosophical work is the philosophy of history. His has been working on it during his whole life and he has seen the main task of philosophy in it. The paper is trying to show the main line of Patočka’s philosophy of history – the relationship between the human and the history and the historicity as a rise on one side, in the opposite relation to the decadence on the other. Exactly the rising movement coming from the decadence is the main principle, on which Patočka’s new – philosophical – periodicity of the history is based. Significant part of Patočka’s understanding of the concept of history is an idea of taking care of the soul, which is marking the main line of the history, understood as something that has created European man and Europe as a spiritual form. Patočka’s theory of the philosophy of history is very inspiring and actual even in the present time. The main reason of its actuality, is the idea of historicity, which in its essence means to be willing to see a human behaviour as an endless problem and which has created the base for the care of the soul and for the philosophy itself.

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