Subject to Soul, Object to World: Jan Patočka’s Platonism of Care
- 1 January 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Philosophy Documentation Center in Studia Phaenomenologica
- Vol. 20, 239-261
- https://doi.org/10.5840/studphaen20202011
Abstract
Jan Patočka thought travels on the parallel rails of a-subjective phenomenology and the care of the soul. For the most part, their parallel supportive function remains unproblematic. However, in order to appreciate the significance of Patočka’s contribution to the history of philosophy and the stakes of its undertaking, the alignment of the rails must be tested: how can a phenomenology, which strives to dislocate the subject from its experiential privilege, attempt to bring the soul into both the onto-epistemic as well as the ethico-political epicentre? By revising Platonism, Patočka wagers an ambitious, fragile answer, which opens nothing less than the space of freedom.Keywords
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