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Bernard Bolzano's work " On the Best State " in the context of political utopianism from 16th to 19th century.
Jiras, Jakub ; Stracený, Josef (advisor) ; Pelcová, Naděžda (referee)
This diploma thesis is focused on the part of the work of important philosopher and mathematician Bernard Bolzano, which is currently rather neglected. It is his utopian writing On the best state. The aim of my thesis is to find out (through the analysis of the selected representatives of the utopian genre from the 16th to half of the 19th century and their consequent comparison with Bolzano's utopia), where to put the book On the best state in context of European utopian thought. In Czech literature Bolzano's writing is considered to be an example of rationalistic utopia of Enlightenment; however this statement hasn't been proven by deeper comparative analysis. That's why this diploma thesis tries to review this statement in order to either confirm it or define newly the position of Bolzano's book in the history of political utopianism. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first one gives basic introduction to Bolzano's professional and personal life, which is necessary for better understanding of his political thought. The second part analyzes important European utopias of Renaissance, Enlightenment as well as the utopias of the first half of the 19th century. The main part of this thesis is the chapter three, where are discussed selected political, economical and social aspects of the...
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Imagination of infinity
Semerád, Martin ; Pauza, Miroslav (advisor) ; Sak, Petr (referee) ; Jirků, Petr (referee)
This work deals with a basic question of modern science and it is its indefectibility. Quality of education is reduce to an evaluation of conformity to a common known knowledge and its quantity representation. Seeds of this long process go back to an ancient academia of Gondisapur established in an Arabic world. Author proclaims that the main goal of philosophy is to show, that this is not the only way of thinking and in the same time that the main goal and power of phenomenology is to apply the transcendental epoche to overcame the truth in its regularization shape. The hardcore of modern science is located in the world of mathematics and a lot of thinkers find the Math as a land of pure sureness - the core of this work in an opposite proofs, that in fact nowadays math is all, but the correct way of thinking. The two examples are explicit: the Pythagorean Theorem and the Sum of the geometric row. This work brings a quite new view on the mathematical problem of "the point" and "the nothing" as a border of things. In the second part uses as a frame of its topic the first 18 §§ of the work "Paradoxes of the infinite" by Czech mathematician of German mother tongue Bernard Bolzano. The important idea of this study is a new ontological view on the set of prime numbers.
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Bernard Bolzano and his conception of society
ŠŤASTNÁ, Kateřina
This Bachelor´s degree thesis "Bernard Bolzano and his conception of society" deals with the characteristic and the analysis of Bernard Bolzano´s philosophical views, mainly concerning the social issues. The first part introduces the biography of Bernard Bolzano and his significance to the history of social sciences. The next part focuses on the pedagogical activity and Bolzano´s lectures. The third part concerns Bolzano´s criticism of Immanuel Kant. The fourth part deals with the characteristic and the analysis of Bolzano´s social and political views. This part focuses on the formulation and meaning of Bolzano´s Supreme Moral Law, his view of the progress in the society and it also concerns with the analysis of social and political issues in Bolzano´s booklet On the Best State. The object is to depict the personality of Bernard Bolzano and characterize and analyse Bernard Bolzano´s philosophical views, mainly concerning the social issues.
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The Bolzano Trial
Lorenzová, Helena
The text points at the clash between the lingering Enlightenment and the monarch-sponsored Catholic Restoration in Bohemia in the early 19th century, using the church trial of the famous theologian, philosopher and mathematician Bernard Bolzano as an example.
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Bernard Bolzano and Paradoxes of Infinity
Fuchs, Eduard
The development of the nation of the infinity from the ancient sense of the potential and topical infinity to the infinity in the modern set theory is studied in the paper. Special attention is devoted to the personality of Bernard Bolzano and the contribution of his book Paradoxes of the Infinity.
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