Filosofie u Slovanů
Philosophy among the Slavs

Author(s): Josef Tvrdý
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: When we write about philosophy among the Slavs, it does not mean that we want to describe in detail the history of the philosophy of individual Slavic tribes, recording here and there a book from individual branches of philosophy. Our intention is to present Slavic philosophy, as it manifests itself mainly in the world and life outlook, from a unified point of view, from which it would also follow whether this philosophy is characterized by any special feature by which it would differ from the philosophy of individual Western nations and to show this feature on the examples of individual Slavic philosophers. Secondly, it is necessary to address the question here whether there are any philosophical problems at all, or at least given by the historical situation in philosophy, which are particularly suited to the Slavic nature, whether there is, therefore, any Slavic task in philosophy and whether individual Slavic philosophers sought to meet it. From this follows the question of which European philosophical currents particularly influenced Slavic philosophy and what coloration they acquired in Slavic guise, and secondly, how and to what extent Slavic philosophers contributed originally to the solution of general philosophical problems. And of course, in doing so, one cannot ignore the questions of whether some philosophers considered the task of Slavism, for example, of individual Slavic nations, as it is assigned to them in modern culture, and whether these ideas gained a response in Slavism, and how they manifested themselves.

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