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Filosofický náhled na svět u Miloše Srba (Dějiny a současnost české filosofie, Pardubice, 4.6.2014)
| Title in English | Miloš Srb's Philosophical Worldview |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In my contribution I come from a de facto main single book of Miloš Srb (Live Reality), published before the end of his life, which summed up his philosophical view on the world. Srb was very much inspired by the philosophy of Ladislav Klima (further was much inspired by Kant, Bergson and Schopenhauer), with whom he corresponded and which also financially supported. For Miloš Srb philosophy was a way of life, not subject to cold sober academic research - every idea must be first spend internally, not externally accepted. Criterion of truth can be found in our reason, but in the irrational depth of our soul. Reason is obedient servant of irrational spirit; reason only additionally formulates the problem and founds logical reasons to brace already done intuitions. This intuitive certainty is based on the vision of this reality, on the immediate experience of this reality. World, which one have experienced, Srb called meta-logical fact or even a live reality - it's a simple totality, which is contrary to reason incomprehensible and elusive. Rational thinking is up to an additional analysis of the totality lived - itself is a mystery par excellence. In Miloš Srb's philosophy is metaphysical, epistemological norm connected with the ethics - the answer to the question what is "all this" depends on the answer to the question of how to act properly in life. A natural complement to any philosophical speculation is philosophically disciplined life. The task of the philosopher is to make his active life in accordance with his knowledge. Srb's ethics, as a way of righteousness, is eudaimonistic. Human happiness lies only in himself, in what he can control himself and not in things that are beyond his power. Self is pure activity, dependence on things puts him into passive affair, because happiness is freedom from things, as they say in Upanishads. |
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