Recalling Masaryk’s The Czech Question

Jan Svoboda received his Ph.D. from the Philosophical Faculty at Palacký University Olomouc in 2015 and is currently a research fellow at the Department for the Study of Modern Czech Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His publications include Masarykův realismus a filosofie pozitivismu (Masaryk's Realism and Philosophy of Positivism) (Prague, 2017) and 'Whitehead’s Interpretation of Plato’s “Receptacle” and the Parallels with the Concept of “Eternal Objects”', in: Nóema: Rivista online di filosofia, (2020). Aleš Prázný received his habilitation from Charles University in Prague in 2016 and has been an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice since 2002. His publications include O smyslu politiky. Politická filosofie Hannah Arendtové (The Meaning of Politics. The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt) (Pardubice, 2014) and 'New Education and Dewey´s Pragmatism', in: Pragmatism Today (2021).

Notes on Contributors


Introduction

  Jan Svoboda and Aleš Prázný



part 1

The Historical Context of Masaryk’s Czech Question

1 Understanding the Debate around the ‘Czech Question’ in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

  Miroslav Hroch



2 Modern Czech State-Formation

  Robert Kvaček



3 The Czech Question in Its Time

  Miloš Havelka



part 2

Ethics as the Heart of Philosophy

4 Modernism and Transcendence from the Perspective of Masaryk’s Realism

  Jan Svoboda



5 Masaryk’s Ethics

  Wendy Drozenová



6 T. G. Masaryk’s Thoughts on Ján Kollár’s Idea of Humanity

  Vasil Gluchman



part 3

The Pro-Masaryk View of the Czech Question

7 The Legacy of Masaryk’s Idea of Enlightened Humanism

  Vlastimil Zátka



8 The Czech Question and the Principle of Federalism

  Milan Znoj



9 Masaryk’s Czech Question and the Idea of the Czech State

  Miloslav Bednář



10 The Czech Question as the Task of a Humanist Education

  Aleš Prázný



part 4

The Anti-Masaryk View of the Czech Question

11 Masaryk’s Philosophy of Czech History from the Perspective of Popper’s Critigue of Historicism

  Otakar A. Funda



12 Criticism of the Czech Question

  Martin Šimsa



13 The Anti-political Nation in Bohemia and Moravia

  Václav Bělohradský



part 5

The Word of a Politician in Exile

14 Humanism as the Motivation of Politics or Masaryk’s Czech Question Today

  Karel Hrubý



part 6

The Word of a Pastor

15 T. G. Masaryk and Our Times

  Jakub S. Trojan



Epilogue of Chairman of the Sekyra Foundation The Return of the Czech Question

  Luděk Sekyra



Index