Jürgen Stolzenberg

Jiří Chotaš

Jindřich Karásek

Interpretationen zu der "Transzendentalen Dialektik" der Kritik der reinen Vernunft

Metaphysik und Kritik

Marek Loužek

Institut Václava Klause

Miloslav Bednář

Milan Znoj

Ján Pavlík

Vladimír Čechák

Publikace obsahuje texty ze semináře Centra pro ekonomiku a politiku z 23. června 2008 a další důležité doplňkové texty. Jsou zde také přetištěny úryvky ze slavných děl Jeana-Jacquese Rousseaua.

Jean Jacques Rousseau: 230 let od úmrtí

Tereza Matějčková

"Modernity has neither a beginning nor an end. To be precise, we do not know when the period started and when (or if) it ended. Are we modern? Were we ever modern? And is "post- modernity" only a variation of modernity? These questions remain open. Just as the phenomenon of modernity is elusive, so is its definition. Yet, elusiveness never prevents thinkers from offering definitions. On the contrary, the very elusiveness is what incites these creative attempts. One of the most famous definitions of modernity does not originate with a philosopher but a poet. Baudelaire says that "modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable" (Baudelaire 1972, 403). This understanding of modernity captures more than its fleetingness; it shows that anything with the tag "modern" has a built- in dimension of transience and finitude, so to speak. Taking inspiration from Baudelaire, we might arrive at a minimal- and by no means unproblematic- definition of modernity: Modern is that which is other than tradition, that which even opposes tradition"--

Hegel's Concept of Ethical Life Today

An Ethical Modernity?

Jiří Chotaš

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