Echoes of Nicolai Hartmann in Czech Philosophy
Abstract
The aim of this article is to follow the echoes and incorporation of Nicolai Hartmann’s ideas in Czech philosophy. For the purpose of showing the variety of philosophical fields influenced by Hartmann, I have selected the systems of four Czech philosophers: Ferdinand Pelikán, Vladimír Hoppe, Jan Blahoslav Kozák, and Vladimír Kubeš. In his attempt to clarify noetic problems, Pelikán paid most of his attention to Grundzüge einer Metaphysik der Erkenntnis. Hoppe created one of the most complete philosophical systems in the history of Czech philosophy, where the notion of intuition plays a key role. Hartmann’s ethics is also treated and assessed by J. B. Kozák. And, in the last part of this chapter, I show the echo of Hartmann’s philosophy in the ontology of law of Vladimír Kubeš. I show that Hartmann’s ideas have not only been adopted in various modifications throughout the history of Czech philosophy, but that they have also been criticized.
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