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T. G. Masaryk - věda a literatura
| Title in English | T. G. Masaryk - science and literature |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Some of the problems that T. G. Masaryk dealt with after his arrival to Prague in 1882 concerned science and literature. In his work On the Study of Works of Poetry (1884) he expressed the idea that literary work is a special method of knowledge of the world and he was convinced that it was the highest knowledge, empirical knowledge, immediate knowledge of things in themselves that can reach the essence. He thought it was exact, even the most exact knowledge and its object was man. However, Masaryk quickly turned to those forms of art that could express the main ideas of the era and bring their solutions. Art and specifically literature should deal with essential questions of life. They should lead moral wars. Masaryk placed an emphasis on morally-sociological evaluation and expression of national values. In 1880s he dealt extensively with Czech science as shown in his work How to Cultivate Our Educational Literature (1885) - an interesting report on the state of the idea of the development of science of the day |
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