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The Struggle for the Eternal and the Infinite (S.Kierkegaard and J.Patočka)
Trlifajová, Justina ; Kouba, Pavel (advisor) ; Ritter, Martin (referee)
The thesis deals with the struggle for the Eternal and the Infinite in the works of Kierkegaard and Patočka. It starts with their respective concepts of existence. Based on them, positive and negative aspects of the relation of existence and transcendence are described. The main guiding principle of the description is the movement of the infinite resignation and the movement of the faith in Fear and Trembling, which is compared with the de-objectifying and all-founding force of the Idea in Negative platonism. It turns out that in the relation between existence and transcendence, one can discern the two basic meanings of the transcendent reality. These meanings, together with the positive and negative aspects of the relation of existence to transcendence, form the dialectic of positive and negative, in which the struggle for the Eternal nad the Infinite is set, as well as the struggle for an authentic human existence.
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Light by Plato
Trlifajová, Justina ; Ritter, Martin (referee) ; Karfík, Filip (advisor)
The thesis deals with the topics of visual light and light of knowledge by Plato, and it attempts to interpret Plato's conception of the light of knowledge. In the first part, the main texts written by Plato on these topics are summarized. In the following part of the thesis, the author proposes her own interpretation of Plato's light of knowledge based on the analogy of visual light and light of knowledge in Plato's Republic. The author then formulates a conjecture concerning the meaning Plato's light of knowledge, and applies it to backtrack connections of the light of knowledge to the visual light. In the thesis, various meanings of Plato's light of knowledge are demonstrated. They are summarized at the end of the second part of the thesis. Plato's metafors of light have been of great importance through the history of European intellectual tradition. Therefore, the author discusses meanings of these metaphors in pre-platonic works in the introduction, and outlines the impact of Plato's light of knowledge on the subsequent development of religious and philosophical thinking.
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