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To Close One's Eyes Forever: Husserl, Sartre, and Death
Kvapil, Ondřej ; Kouba, Pavel (advisor) ; Blecha, Ivan (referee) ; Němec, Václav (referee)
In the present thesis, I examine the concept of death in Husserl, whose analyses of death have stayed aside of philosophical debates for decades, and in Sartre, whose analyses of death have slowly ended up on the periphery of these debates. Against the backdrop of the thematic chapters, I will focus on the ancient thesis of the unthinkability of death, put it in question and finally, articulate an even more ancient relationship between death and thought. In my first chapter, I do not seek to provide a historical analysis of the genesis of the concept of death in Husserl's phenomenology, nor a systematic study of the place death occupies in his transcendental idealism. On the basis of the often fragmentary manuscripts, I strive to reconstruct Husserl's notion of death in its plasticity, attempt to think it through to its consequence, and then formulate its implicit presuppositions. In the second chapter, I confront the mainstream reading of Sartre on death, according to which Sartre represents an Epicurean among the phenomenologists, and show that this reading turns, in fact, the meaning of his analyses upside down. Before doing so, however, I will revise the context in which Sartre has been read so far, freeing him from the schematic comparison with Heidegger and arguing that regarding death he is...
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At the Borders of Metaphysics. An Attempt to Interpret Patočka's Philosophy of Negative Platonism
Sladký, Pavel ; Kouba, Pavel (advisor) ; Ritter, Martin (referee) ; Blecha, Ivan (referee)
The thesis aims to interpret the philosophy of negative Platonism, which Jan Patočka developed during the 1950s. In the first part, negative Platonism, whose preliminary notion is derived from the interpretation of the eponymous programme essay, is studied in the context of contemporary philosophical discussion and Patočka's subjectivist humanistic conception he developed in the latter half of the 1940s as well as his lectures on classical philosophy. The second part contains author's own systematic interpretation of negative Platonism, including the reconstruction of the textual corpus of Patočka's programme. Finally, the third part, which considers first the inspirational sources of the observed project, reviews negative Platonism and outlines a concept, with which Patočka replaced negative Platonism in the late 1950s. The thesis aims to outline the philosophy of negative Platonism as an important stage in Patočka's philosophical development as well as a significant part of the modern history of European thinking.
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Critique of Mythical Economy
Asjoma, Maxim ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Blecha, Ivan (referee) ; Hasse, Rolf (referee)
The concept of myth pervades economic theory and exercise. However, the influence of myth on contemporary economics is not yet analyzed sufficiently - a distinguished critique of mythical economy lacks a fundamental phenomenological approach. Based on this diagnosis, a new method of analysis shall be developed to build up a theoretical framework for an adequate understanding of the foundations of economics. The premise of such an approach is an evolved phenomenological method containing the works of Edmund Husserl, Heinrich Rombach and Michel Henry called "Structural Contingency Analysis". With this, mythical parts of economic language and exercise shall be elucidated for an improved comprehension of its phenomena. Along a differentiated understanding of the concept of myth, as a fundamentally essential way of perception, as also stressed by the research of Kurt Hübner, Karl Kerényi and Jean Gebser, an advanced understanding of the mythical ideology shall be delivered. Finally all preliminary theoretical foundations will be used for a fundamental critique of modern economics. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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At the Borders of Metaphysics. An Attempt to Interpret Patočka's Philosophy of Negative Platonism
Sladký, Pavel ; Kouba, Pavel (advisor) ; Ritter, Martin (referee) ; Blecha, Ivan (referee)
The thesis aims to interpret the philosophy of negative Platonism, which Jan Patočka developed during the 1950s. In the first part, negative Platonism, whose preliminary notion is derived from the interpretation of the eponymous programme essay, is studied in the context of contemporary philosophical discussion and Patočka's subjectivist humanistic conception he developed in the latter half of the 1940s as well as his lectures on classical philosophy. The second part contains author's own systematic interpretation of negative Platonism, including the reconstruction of the textual corpus of Patočka's programme. Finally, the third part, which considers first the inspirational sources of the observed project, reviews negative Platonism and outlines a concept, with which Patočka replaced negative Platonism in the late 1950s. The thesis aims to outline the philosophy of negative Platonism as an important stage in Patočka's philosophical development as well as a significant part of the modern history of European thinking.
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Critique of Mythical Economy
Asjoma, Maxim ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Blecha, Ivan (referee) ; Hasse, Rolf (referee)
The concept of myth pervades economic theory and exercise. However, the influence of myth on contemporary economics is not yet analyzed sufficiently - a distinguished critique of mythical economy lacks a fundamental phenomenological approach. Based on this diagnosis, a new method of analysis shall be developed to build up a theoretical framework for an adequate understanding of the foundations of economics. The premise of such an approach is an evolved phenomenological method containing the works of Edmund Husserl, Heinrich Rombach and Michel Henry called "Structural Contingency Analysis". With this, mythical parts of economic language and exercise shall be elucidated for an improved comprehension of its phenomena. Along a differentiated understanding of the concept of myth, as a fundamentally essential way of perception, as also stressed by the research of Kurt Hübner, Karl Kerényi and Jean Gebser, an advanced understanding of the mythical ideology shall be delivered. Finally all preliminary theoretical foundations will be used for a fundamental critique of modern economics. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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