Categoria: Jan Patocka
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Patocka – The Impact of the Scientific Worldview on Our Life-Feeling
Our purpose here is not to elucidate the genesis and essence of scientific explanation in modern times but rather its influence on our feeling of life. As is clear from the foregoing, the first and strongest effect is to mark our naive world as non-original, derivative. This is not to say that we are aware,…
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Patocka – Wittgenstein and language
Wittgenstein’s treatise is, in brief, an ontological theory of logic. The nature of logic ensues here from the structure of the world, but it can also be said, the other way round, that there is nothing more appropriate than an inquiry into the essence of logic for elucidating the nature of the world. The world…
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Patocka – The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem (Introduction)
Modern man has no unified worldview. He lives in a double world, at once in his own naturally given environment and in a world created for him by modern natural science, based on the principle of mathematical laws governing nature. The disunion that has thus pervaded the whole of human life is the true source…
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Patocka – The Naive Life-World and the World of Science
Before an explicit theoretical interest is awakened in man, he has already acquired an image of the world, which takes shape without any conscious elaboration on his part. This image itself has two components: one that can be called “givenness,” the other a complementary element of explanation or interpretation. The element of givenness comprises all…
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Patocka – The Situation of Man in the World
The theme we are to analyze is man in the world. The first thing to do is to define this object in a purely descriptive way, as an objective guideline. If we start from man as a fundamental term of the relation and take him objectively as part of nature, as a living creature in…
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