Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2021
Abstract
The lecture deals with the philosophy of characterology and genesis of historical cultural units by Tomáš Trnka. The key question is: What is culture in relation to the creative act of an individual and how it changes in history.
Above all, I will approach Trnka's understanding of man in his cultural-biological context. The author rejects rationalist metaphysics, the idea of man outside nature, and at the same time the widespread materialistic reduction of man to a passive conglomerate of instincts.
The lecture aims to approach the contemporary context of thinking in the field of philosophy of culture of the first half of the 20th century.