Publication details
Masaryk o krizi moderního člověka
| Title in English | Masaryk on Crisis of Modern Man |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| 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 one's neighbour 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 commands of a higher moral code. |
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