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Love in Kierkegaard
Puchmertlová, Natálie ; Marek, Jakub (advisor) ; Novák, Aleš (referee)
This thesis aims to analyze Kierkegaard`s understanding of the Christian concept of love, which he considers to be a cornerstone of relating to the Other, to the Self and to God. It should show the uniqueness and urgency of this concept. The primary source used as reference is Kierkegaard`s Works of Love. In the first part of this thesis a distinction between preferential romantic love and Christian unconditional love is made, where their individual moments are analyzed. First the role of self-love is scrutinized and categorized into the forms it may manifest as. Further love of neighbor is presented as a duty; then the subject and the object of matter are defined. The second half of this thesis focuses on specific acts of Christian love and finally on problematic possibility and neediness of the coexistence of both Christian and preferential love. Key words preferential love, neighborly love, love as a duty, selflove, neighbor
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Human's Un-placed Place (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Blaise Pascal, Søren Kierkegaard, Max Picard)
Brocková, Alexandra ; Novák, Aleš (advisor) ; Benyovszky, Ladislav (referee)
Human's Un-placed Place (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Blaise Pascal, Søren Kierkegaard, Max Picard) This diploma thesis studies the theme of human's place and the claim of leading one's own life through the exercise of choice among the possibilities of being. In its title, Human's Un-placed Place, it states that human's place is not of the nature of some predefined and stable place. Human co- defines and finds their own's place by leading their own's life. This thesis interconnects associated philosophical themes in works of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Blaise Pascal, Søren Kierkegaard and Max Picard. As an introduction, the concept of "human's central position" is being thought over. Through that it can be seen that human, unlike other beings, must lead their own's life because no fixed place in cosmos was given to them in advance, so they have to define it themselves. Subsequently, a demand is emphasised on getting to know oneself and coming to oneself as an individual, which is followed by thinking of the constitution of "self" and of the possibilities of despair arising from the fact of "the self". In parallel, the phenomena of escaping from oneself as a response to this specific human position in world is thought through. Also, the fact that human doesn't have the power to completely...
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An attempt at an ontological critique of Wilhelm Dilthey's conception of resistance
Sajvera, David ; Novák, Aleš (advisor) ; Nitsche, Martin (referee) ; Benyovszky, Ladislav (referee)
An attempt at an ontological critique of Wilhelm Dilthey's conception of resistance The starting point of the paper is Wilhelm Dilthey's conception of resistance as a pre-reflective experience of separation of the Self and the outer world. This emerges in the very early (prenatal) stages of ontogenesis and forms the basis of our belief in the reality of outer world. We try to explicate Dilthey's insights more precisely by pursuing the interpretation of his conception by other authors, confronting it with a phenomenological approach and reflecting on the possibilities of ontological grounding of the term. Dilthey's analysis of resistance met with explicit responses from Martin Heidegger and Max Scheler, and became one of the main topics of a debate between them, triggered by Scheler's response to Being and Time. Heidegger rejects Dilthey's concept of resistance, claiming that resistance is characteristic of an ontic entity, but it never characterizes the world in the ontological sense. Resistance always presupposes the disclosure of the world, and also disclosed is that which our will or instinct aim for. A key role here is played by the existential structure of Sorge. Scheler revises Dilthey's original concept and purifies it from some untenable ontic characteristics (e.g. resistance as a content...
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