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Karl Heinrich Heydenreich and His Prospect of "Kantian" Aesthetics before Critique of Judgement
Policar, Antonín ; Hlobil, Tomáš (advisor) ; Karásek, Jindřich (referee) ; Zátka, Vlastimil (referee)
Karl Heinrich Heydenreich a his Prospect of "Kantian" Aesthetics before the Critique of Judgment Dissertation Mgr. Antonín Policar Abstract The aim of my thesis is to provide an insight into the aesthetic thought of the German Enlightenment philosopher and professor at the Leipzig University Karl Heinrich Heydenreich (1764-1801). I will analyze his various attempts during the 1780s to adapt the German tradition of philosophical aesthetics to the newly emerging transcendental paradigm introduced to philosophy by Immanuel Kant. The main focus will be on the question if Heydenreich's aesthetic writings prior to 1790 can be justifiably considered (as it has been repeatedly, but without convincing arguments pointed out by historians of aesthetics) a predecessor, or even a parallel to Kant's Critique of Judgement.
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The motive of sport in Robert Musil's literary work (Aesthetic aspect)
Šafrová, Kateřina ; Hlobil, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
This thesis investigates the motive of sport and physicality in the literary work of Robert Musil, especially its philosophical and aesthetic aspect. The aim of the first part is to capture the existing knowledge on this subject in the secondary literature. Based on these findings the second part of this work develops a hypothesis by Hanns- Marcus Müller on the context of the concepts of physicality and sport by Friedrich Nietzsche and Robert Musil. My bachelor thesis concludes with a comprehensive concept of sport in Robert Musil's thinking, which refutes the view of apparent internal inconsistencies of Musil's claims, currently prevailing in the expert community.
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Czech highschool primers of poetics (1908-2007)
Podhajský, František ; Hlobil, Tomáš (advisor) ; Foglarová, Eva (referee)
The thesis examines primers of poetics that have been in use at Czech high schools in the period between 1908 and 2007. The first chapter attempts to explain the reason for changes of titles of this kind of textbooks and it summarizes singles genres that were used to writing these books. The four following chapters are a survey of the concept of Czech secondary school primers of poetics in the years of 1908 and 1933, 1933 and 1948, 1948 and 1989, and lastly 1989 and 2007. In their beginning, each chapter provides a short characteristics of the high school system. The last part of each chapter is devoted to the definition of art in secondary school textbooks of literary theory. The conclusion outlines the development of these school books and it summarizes their scopes of art. A list of Czech high school primers of poetics and their reviews is also an important part of this thesis.
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Jaroslav Hruban's "Neoidealistic aesthetics". A tribute to aesthetic value theory
Hanáčková, Martina ; Foglarová, Eva (advisor) ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis would like to contribute to the spreading of the awareness of the aesthetic values of Jaroslav Hruban, not well - known representative of Czech aesthetics. The thesis focuses manily on Hruban's "Dante period", in which he manages to clarify his opinions on aesthetic value, namely that connected with art. This work tries to elucidate this thinker's concept of aesthetic value, which, due to its metaphysical background, proves Hruban's thinking to contain some neoidealistic elements, rather than to agree with then society on the terms of positivism. ln this aesthetic value, Hruban sees some potential in the skills to intensity mental activities and therefore broaden man's spiritual horizons. lt is in this way that the aesthetic value contributes to positive transforming of human life.
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The role of beauty in Plato's philosophy
Gál, Ota ; Špinka, Štěpán (advisor) ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee)
The final thesis aims to develop the question of beauty in Plato. To do so, it tries to gain a proper interpretative access to Plato`s dialogues in the first chapter, and concludes that as they are principally unified on the basis of the likeness of the cave, they can be separated into three structurally different groups with distinct purposes - elenctic, anabatic and katabatic. The second chapter analyzes the dialogue Hippias Major, and traces the ontological implications of its negative outcome, as well as suggestions in relation to which other notions Plato tried to develop his conception. It then analyzes the dialogue Phaedo and tries to reconstruct the basics of Plato's theory of forms, beauty being one of them. The third chapter analyzes the question of beauty in the dialogues Symposium and Phaedrus in more detail, i.e in relation to love, good, happiness, begetting, soul and speech. Beauty is said to be shining both as form and in body, and eros can thus be mistaken in the source of its excitement. Most importantly the erotic movement of the soul is described as partner. It unifies the tripartite soul, different souls, including divine ones and, to a certain extent, even the soul and corrporeality. These analyses unravel in the fourth chapter beauty as, at the same time, cause and purpose of a...
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The phenomenon of "Czech aesthetics" in reflection of the Czech aesthetic thought
Čechová, Alena ; Foglarová, Eva (advisor) ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee)
century. Before that, F. Palacký dealt with the aesthetics history, although his "Přehled dějin krásovědy a její literatury" (1823) deals only with the world aesthetics history. Palacký was convinced about the fact that in the Czech setting it is not possible to talk about a development of any aesthetic theories. His work significantly influenced Czech aesthetic historiography because Palacký accepted the idea of development. In his opinion all man's endeavour is aimed to achieve humanity (much later M. Novák also thinks the same way). The need for recording history of the Czech aesthetics appeared not until a half of 19th century. The effort to make the national philosophy independent was the main condition for this need. Herbartians - F. Čupr, J. Dastich and J. Durdík - returned to aesthetic ideas of Tomáš Štítný ze Štítného whom they, by mistake, considered to be the original thinker and predecessor of formal aesthetics. Among Czech Herbartian writings we can find not only revivalist efforts, but also certain "cosmopolitanism", knowledge that Herbart's philosophy is the holder of the truth (Herbart's philosophy was important for Czech philosophical thinking mainly because of terminology). The name Štítný became "a milestone" in the Czech aesthetics history. It played an important role in A. Krecar's work...
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Three textbooks of aesthetics (Hugh Blair, Johann Joachim Eschenburg and Johann August Eberhard).
Martinková, Zuzana ; Hlobil, Tomáš (advisor) ; Dykast, Roman (referee)
The thesis examines three enlightenment textbooks of literary arts of that period, which were all published in 1783 and significantly contributed to dissemination of aesthetic ideas. Its primary aim is to determine how aesthetics, as a separate philosophical discipline, entered into these three selected textbooks of literary arts of that period, and in what ways it has influenced their interpretation. It raises a question of how the presence or absence of aesthetics influenced the concept of these texts not only as a whole, but also in developing specific theories, themes and ideas that are further compared in this thesis. It analyses the main sections of the textbooks and introduces their basic structure and specific opinions, which are then critically evaluated. The aim of the thesis is to examine the character of the interpretations and grasp the theories of particular kinds of arts depending on whether they were performed within or outside the framework of aesthetics. The presented thesis should contribute to a better understanding of the differences and similarities between German and Scottish reflections of aesthetic questions at the end of 18th century based on these three examples of textbooks.
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Moral Responsibility of Art
Bolková, Anežka ; Stejskal, Jakub (advisor) ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee)
In my work I survey the debate about the legitimacy of moral criticism of art, which has developed in the 1990s in the field of analytic aesthetics. In three sections, I examine three basic positions in the debate - autonomism, moralism and immoralism - which, each in its own way, answer the basic question that motivates the whole debate, namely: what is the influence of the moral value of the work on its aesthetic or artistic value. I point out that the concepts of aesthetic and artistic values are not properly defined, which is the reason why the proponents of the various positions not only cannot come to an agreement, but they also cannot agree on the point of their disagreement.
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The Entry "Fashion" in Czech Encyklopedias
Schambergerová, Lucie ; Hlobil, Tomáš (advisor) ; Jarošová, Helena (referee)
The thesis "Entry "Fashion" in Czech Encyclopedias" analyses an evolution of aesthetic viewpoint of the entry "fashion" since its first appearance (the first Encyclopedia in Czech language from 1866) until recently (the Entry Fashion in 2001). The thesis research method is based on Jan Mukařovský's theory of function, value and norm of the aesthetics and his commentaries on fashion, which I made a subset to my own term aesthetic viewpoint. For better orientation I first decided to summarize particular analyses of each entry into a spreadsheet which makes development, way of characterisation and terminological variability of aesthetic viewpoint apparent in a more complete way. The main goal is to answer the following reasearch questions: 1. Do authors distinguish between fashion as a norm and fashion as a form of clothing? 2. Which terms are being used to thematize the aesthetic viewpoint? 3. What is the context of the aesthetic viewpoint of fashion?
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