Jan Sokol (philosopher)
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Jan Sokol was a Czech philosopher, dissident, politician and translator. He briefly served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in 1998 under Prime Minister Josef Tošovský. From 1990 to 1992, he
Sokol in 2007
Josef Tošovský, Czech Prime Minister
Jan Patočka
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Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Having studied at Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. At Freiburg he also developed a lifelo
Jan Sokol (philosopher)
…influenced mostly by Bible, Christian tradition, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Raymond Ruyer, his father-in-law Jan Patočka and Emmanuel Lévinas. His works mainly dealt with Philosophical Anthropology, Phenomenology, Anthropology of Religion and of Law and in the theory of…
Patočka in 1971
Grave of Jan Patočka, Břevnov cemetery, Prague