Abstrakt
The phenomenon of suicide by Tomáš G. Masaryk in the context of the development of modern society and education.
His point to the need for a "new religion" and a new worldview that should help overcome the crisis phenomena of modern society. Evaluation of Masaryk's consistency by Jan Patočka.
Goethe's Faust as a representative of the efforts of modern man and as a point of contact between the thinking of T. Masaryk and R.
Steiner. Rudolf Steiner's remark on the inadequacy and impotence of the "new religion" or worldview, if these are formulated only in abstract form.
The need for a fundamental revision of the modern approach to the world and nature. The "spiritual concretism" of Rudol Steiner, resp. spiritual science as a non-abstract basis for a modern worldview capable of guaranteeing the ideals of humanity as opposed to the guarantees offered to humanism by Masaryk.