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What does it mean to care about the reader (on the author's honesty and two types of narration)
Koťátko, Petr
The author confronts two modes of narration, called 'immune' and 'radical', and two correalive narrative subjects: 'narrator in a good shape' and 'narrator in decay'. He argues that neither of these two narration types can be classified as basic or 'natural' – while the other one comes out as a deviation from the standard. Both of them are equally equipped for mimetic function and both can reflect the author's responsibility and respect to the reader, although they activate different components of the reeader's interpretative competence.
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Matthias Wenceslaus Steyer and 'his' exempla
Havelka, Tomáš
The Jesuit Mathias Wenceslaus Steyer belongs among most important persons of the Czech literature of the second half of the 17th Century. His Postila katolická (The Catholic Postil) is remarkable for many reasons, this article focuses attention just on the narrative level of exempla. Moreover, if we join exempla from the postil and his translation of Manni's Eternal Infernal Jail, Steyer becomes one of the most important producer of exempla of his time. The article attempts unveil some aspects of his strategy how to work with exempla. On few cases, it shows various interpretative and literary historical problems.
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Europe's helplessness and suppressed the power of ideas
Hauser, Michael
First, the article summarizes results achieved by the European Union in terms of the economic crises. On the basis of official statistics and statements then the author concludes that Europe is in a multiplied crisis which cannot be got over by established ways of political and economical actions. A possible solution is found in materialist concept of ideas which can act as an economical factor.
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Temporal Prediction in the Work of Pavel Tichý
Kužel, Petr
The paper deals with temporal prediction within a theoretical system of transparent intentional logic of Czech logician Pavel Tichy. Article in a nutshell characterizes Tichy's arguments against atemporal or time-less conception of Bertrand Russell. It shows how on base of temporal prediction is possible to overcome some logical paradoxes. Explicitly is treated for example McTaggart's paradox.
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Digitalization and Visualization of J. A. Comenius' Correspondence (1592-1670)
Lelková, Iva
The project of digitizing and visualization of Jan Amos Comenius' (1592-1670) correspondence is an outcome of an international collaboration among the Department for Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Cultures of Knowledge project of the University of Oxford. An online database of Comenius' letters was created within the online union catalogue of early modern scholarly correspondence called the Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) and outstandingly rich metadata were used for visualizations and analysis of the Comenius' correspondence. The researchers used free visualization web-based platform Palladio developed by the Stanford University. Visualization and data analysis not only facilitated to visualize previously known tendencies and facts but also helped to discover new and unknown moments which led to further study.
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Philosophical Perspective of Humanist Discourse on History: Ars Historica in Patrizi's and Pontano's Dialogues
Šolcová, Kateřina
The renaissance revival of classical learning raised an interest in history that found expression in a new literary genre, ars historica. In this contribution I provide an analysis of two ars historica examples: The dialogue Actius (written around 1499) by the Neapolitan humanist Giovanni Pontano (1426-1503), which emphasized the literary context of history, and Francesco Patrizi’s (1529-1597) Della historia. Dieci dialoghi (1560), underscoring the appropriate method with focus on the true motivations of historical events. A comparison of these two remarkable works will show in which features the humanist authors anticipated the future development that elevated history to a conceptually independent discipline.
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Literary modernism and the truth behind hoaxes. The symbolist conception of hoaxes between gnoseological enthusiasm and epistemological scepticism
Řezníková, Lenka
The study focuses the shifts in the representations of hoax in the Czech literature at the end of the 19th century and their epistemological context. Whereas in previous decades mystifications were particularly represented as a social practice, at the turn of the century they free itself from existing ethical standards and raise to a legitimate aesthetic and gnoseological category. This shift in the conception of hoaxes reflected the general rise in the scepticism, which at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries cast doubt over illusory obviousness of empirical evidence. Despite this epistemological scepticism, however, a new conception showed some gnoseological optimism, i.e. did not exclude the possibility of gaining knowledge as such. However it postulated knowledge of a new and unempirical kind reflecting the danger of delusion.
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The Philosophy of Purposeless Time
Hauser, Michael
The article addresses the issue of leisure in the sense of ancient schole. It strives to uncover the relationship between Aristotelian concept of theoretical activity and schole as vacuity. It shows a paradoxical character of schole as purposeless time that forms condition for a meaningful activity. How, then, to restore schole as vacuity today, when colonization of time expands?
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