Masaryk's Idea of Enlightened Humanism (Herder, Rousseau, Kant) and his Criticism of the Romantic Historiography
2017
Abstract
The study deals with the relation of Masaryk's concept of enlightened humanism to his criticism of the romantic historiography of the Czech history of the 19th. century. Humanism and the normative "idea of humanism" represented in Masaryk's concept a heuristic clue in searching for the higher metaphysic "sense" of the Czech history.
In the study there is also emphasized that the main goal of Masaryk's interpretation of so called "Czech Question" was to demythologize the Czech history and to find its deeper philosophical fundaments deprived of romantic desinterpretations.