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Masarykovo pojetí krize moderního člověka a současnost

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Title in English Masaryk's Problem of the Crisis of Modern Man and Contemporaneousness
Authors

ZOUHAR Jan

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - dílo a odkaz pro naši dobu
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Philosophy and religion
Keywords Masaryk; Modern Man
Description Masaryk's central problem was the crisis of modern man. He looked for its profound causes (disintegration of traditional values and of a comprehensive Weltanschauung, superficial man:), diagnosed its symptoms (suicides, cultural snobbery, non-religiosity, social conflicts, revolutions), and tried to constitute such values as could overcome the crises (inward man), a harmonic Weltanschauung, every day work, ethical and lived religion, education, a scientific and philosophical understanding of man, and a transcendent religious horizon). Religion remainded for Masaryk a central instrument for overcoming our crisis, a factor which harmonizes both human personality and the global relationships within the society. This mission, however, can be fulfilled only by a new, non-ecclesiastical, personal, live religion without ecclesiastical institutions and respecting the importance of modern science and philosophy. Masaryk's approach is based on trust in a personal God and in the immortality of the soul. His dogmatics consisted in the requirement of an effective love toward ones neighbor and in the viewpoint of eternity (life sub specie aeternitatis). This implied awareness that the humanitarian principle, respect of other people and oneself, has to emanate from the knowledge that we are non-sovereign beings subordinated to the comands of a higher moral code.
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