Abstract
According to Ladislav Hejdánek, one of the most significant contemporary Czech philosophers, "objectifying" in thinking has been present in the European tradition for more than 2 000 years. By this tradition, as he is convinced, we are conducted to think about reality as constituted by motionless objects, even when animals, plants or other living beings are concerned.
Thus, he defends the necessity of "non-objectifying" thinking that would be able to approach reality which is itself non-objective (including not only human or other beings, but the world or truth as well). Another author concerned with this problem is German philosopher Karl Jaspers, who have had a remarkable influence on Hejdánek, too.
Whatever we think, we think it, according to Jaspers, in "subject-object dichotomy" - we ourselves are subjects and everything we think becomes an object. However, beyond this split, there is the "encompassing", "being itself", which has neither the character of an object nor a subject.
In philosophy, our reason attempts to gain insight into this "non-objective reality" by transcending the subject-object dichotomy. But at the same time, reason finds out that it is incapable of grasping this "encompassing" as such, because it immediately and inevitably objectifies it. - But what does it mean exactly, when we talk about "objectifying"? And why should we be interested in such a topic, which seems to be not important for our everyday life? The presentation will try to show that, in fact, this problem concern and influence everyone who live and think in European tradition.