My diploma thesis researches the concept of perennial philosophy (philosophia perennis, theologia prisca) and its development in the history of different cultures of the World. As I claim, the concept of Perennialism presents a useful means of understanding of different cultures distanced from us in time and space, including the history of the culture of ours. Perennialism shows, that Wisdom is not an exclusive property of just one civilization, but a common heritage of the Humankind as a whole. Further, it points to mutually beneficial influence of different cultures of the Globe. Throughout the paper, my focus lies on the development of philosophia perennis in the Islamic civilization, particularly on Sufism. Before being demolished by the rise of nationalism, the Sufist philosophy enabled a peaceful coexistence and dialog between different cultures and religions. The development of Perennialism is further studied in the philosophy of european Renaissance, where it was first tolerated by the Catholic Church, later to be abandoned, unfortunately (with few exceptions), during the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War. In the current pedagogical practice, the conception of philosophia perennis may become means of highlighting the common grounds of different cultures in the times of culminating...

TITLE: Philosophical aspects of environmental education and consulting AUTHOR: Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Marková DEPARTMENT: Department of civics and philosophy SUPERVISOR: Prof. PhDr. Anna Hogenová CSc. ABSTRACT: This Dissertation deals with philosophical bases of environmental education. It conducts a survey of a historical development from nature protection education, through environmental care, ecological education, and environmental education up to education for sustainable development in the Czech Republic. In the chapter "The Reasons of environmental education" certain until now nonanswered questions are formulated, following the chapter where Fink's educational antinomies are discussed. Environmental schools are described by Činčera like ecological education - positivistic stream, global education, deep ecological education and way back to roots, education for sustainable development, and education for ecoliteracy. The crucial theme of the Dissertation is the chapter of a philosophical base of the environmental education. According to Patočka and Palouš we are living just now in an era that can be called as ecological one. From the presented theoretical analysis under a help of philosophy, or more exactly said philosophy of education, followed cardinal philosophic topics of ecologic education, that...

The thesis "Searching for today's education" deals with a dynamic relationship between contemporary postmodern society and school institution, which is the heritage of modern period. This relationship is conceived in two different ways: theoretically by the approach of postmodern philosophy (represented here by the interpretation of works by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes) and practically by the evaluation of high-school seminar Understanding contemporary situation that has been held for last year students of a grammar school in Prague. After the introduction and overview of past discussion on this topic the analysis of three basic values of modern school on the concept of indoctrination and neutrality were offered. Those values are education for the truth, education for the freedom and civic education. At the same time a certain tension between the truth and freedom on one hand and the civic education on the other hand occurs. In the next chapter I try to characterize contemporary society by plurality (de/legitimisation, fragmentarisation), relativising relationship to the reality (virtualisation, technologisation, medialisation), and problematising of the subject (problem of identity and marginalisation). In the main part of the thesis I interpret the...

This thesis deals with the topic of the Socratic question as a basis of the care for one's soul in Patocka's texts within the period from 30th to 50th years of the 20th century. This topic is here divided into three larger coherent units. The first part deals with the Patocka's understanding of Socratic care for one's soul as a historical moral self-creation of man having a character of negatively oriented transcension, which is not determined by ideas, but associated in its way of distance from objectivity with motive of knowing unknowing about the last good. The second part of this thesis deals with Patocka's comprehending of Plato as a creator of metaphysical thinking, in which core stands this negatively oriented experience of Socratic moral reversal. Plato, however, this experience of originally unobjectivated horizon according to Patocka's interpretation objectivates as the world of eternal ideas. Patocka as a central interpretative motive of this experience inserts in his own interpretation of Plato the term of Being inspired by Heidegger, which is very close to Plato's Idea of Good laying beyond all divides of essence (ἐπέκεινα τῆς οὐσίας). The last part of this thesis concerns with Patocka's own attempt to understand Plato's Idea by unobjective means. Although thus interpreted Idea is relieved of...

The Christian concept of hope is often criticised for the asceticism, renouncement, and passiveness in expecting the arrival of God's kingdom in "future time". On the contrary, the eschatology of Nikolai Berdyaev in Christian philosophy speaks about the necessary transformation of the world by the human itself, determining the arrival of God's kingdom. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the concept of hope related to the world, which is currently estranged and objectified. This approach is further looked upon in the context of similarly eschatologically-orientated Ernst Bloch's Philosophy of hope, Jürgen Moltmann's Theology of hope, and Johann Baptist Metz's Political theology. The thesis aims to evaluate the extent of the transferability of Berdyaev's thinking into current debates about the Christian philosophy of hope. Keywords: Christian philosophy, Personalism, Philosophy of hope, Philosophy of history, Christian eschatology, Political theology

This work is an attempt of interpretation of philosophical views on art of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka, as outlined in its raw form in philosophical writings so called strahovská heritage. Strahovská heritage is a collection of so far unpublished philosophical writings, written approximately in the period of 1939 to 1945. These have never been submitted for publication. Philosopher Jan Patočka - in Czech as well as abroad is generally known mainly as a thinker developing thoughts of his famous teachers Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger - in the framework of heritage only refers to dilemma of art in a secondary way. Despite this, some referrals to art, which can be found within the framework of this heritage, contain a great potential for further interpretation. Interpretation of these Patočka references to art are required to be put into the wider context of Patočka's thinking and especially adds to understanding of evolution of Patočka's philosophy of art. Patočka's philosophy of art was only fully extended in his later works, namely 1960's of XX. century.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris IV, 1976. / Bibliography: p. 1005-1016.

Issued also, in microfilm form, as thesis, Columbia University. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-195).

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met samenvatting in het Nederlands'.

Proefschr. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. / Auteursnaam op omslag gedrukte versie: Menno Rol. Met lit. opg. en index. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.