Jan Patočka jako průvodce na cestě z podsvětí
Jan Patočka as a guide on the journey to the underworld

Author(s): Erika Vonková
Subject(s): Philosophy, Education, Recent History (1900 till today), Higher Education , History of Education
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: philosophy; Jan Patočka; spiritual man; Faculty of Education of the Masaryk University;
Summary/Abstract: The paper introduces Jan Patočka as one of the possible guides from the world of shadows to the real world, based on the assertion that this important Czech philosopher can be considered as a representative of the so-called “spiritual people”. Patočka’s guidance can be observed in his texts including those related to his pedagogical activity, but can be connected even to his pedagogical missions. The second part of the text describes one of these missions – his four-semester long term at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University in Brno in 1946-1948. The pedagogical mission of Jan Patočka is considered at the Faculty of Education as one of the cornerstones, on which the faculty providing academic education to teachers, was built in 1946. The system of the faculty was based on seminars at the time of its foundation. One of them was the philosophical seminar for which Jan Patočka was called upon from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. As such, Jan Patočka became the first “philosophy teacher“ at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University.

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