Jan Sokol (philosopher)

January Sokol ( born April 18, 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech philosopher, university teacher and politician.

Life

Who worked in January Sokol professionally even as a goldsmith and mechanics, is the founding dean of the Fakulta humanitních studií (Faculty of Human Sciences ), Charles University, Prague. As one of the first signatories of Charter 77, he was also active in the time before the turn of various citizens' movements.

Sokol is married to the daughter of the philosopher Patocka January, Františka Patočková with whom he has a daughter and two sons.

Political action

In 1990 he became a deputy of the Czech party Občanské fórum the Czechoslovak parliament. In this role he was also Deputy Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies and chairman of the parliamentary delegation in the European Parliament. After the breakup of the Civic Forum 1991, he became involved in the civil rights movement and was its vice chairman. In 1996 he competed unsuccessfully for the KDU- CSL for a seat in the Senate. In 1997 he was advisor to the then Minister of Education.

In the first half of 1998, he was himself free party Minister of Education, Youth and Physical Education in the interim government of Premier Josef Tošovský. As a free party candidate, nominated by the then coalition government, he also appeared on 28 February 2003 in the third round of the then carried out by the Czech Parliament elections for the office of President of. However, it won surprisingly the candidate of the ODS Václav Klaus.

Member Sokol is also the Czech PEN Club.

Sokol as a scientist

Since he was not allowed to study under the communist regime, he was able to study mathematics until the second chance education. In anthropology, he received his doctorate in 1993 at the Charles University, he completed his habilitation in 1997 and 2000 was professor in philosophy.

In addition to a series of written books, he also participated in the ecumenical translation of the Bible. Study student, he worked at the Universities of Heidelberg and Pennsylvania, as well as a Senior Fellow at Harvard University.

Publications

Czech

  • Moc, peníze a právo ( power, money, and legal ), Aleš Čeněk, Plzeň 2007
  • Malá filosofie člověka ( Small philosophy of man ), Vyšehrad, Praha 5th edition 2007
  • Cas a rytmus (time and rhythm ), 2nd ed Oikumene, Praha 2004
  • Človek a náboženství ( man and religion), Portál, Praha 2004
  • Filozofická Anthropology ( Philosophical Anthropology ), Portál, Praha 2002
  • Anthropology a etika ( Anthropology and ethics), Triton, Praha 2003

German

  • Neighborhood - and Be Different From an anthropological point of view. In: contemporary theology, Erfurt, Vol 50 (2007 ) / 3, pp. 162-171. ISSN
  • An ethic for all people? In: Schmid Ingersoll - Hope (ed.), Ethics in focus. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2005, pp. 181-200. ISBN 3-7022-2710-5.
  • Europe speaks. Linguistic diversity and politics. In: Eastern Europe 5-6/2004, Berlin, pp. 276-283. ISSN.
  • What is money? In: Journal of Economic and Business Ethics 5/2 (2004 ), pp. 176-185. ISSN 1439- 880X
  • Life as a movement. January Patocka and the philosophy of education. In: Yearbook for educational philosophy, 3 (2000 ), pp. 223-229. Schneider Hohengehren, ISBN 3-89676-328-8.
  • What is money? In: M. T. Vogt ( Ed.), Cultures in encounter. Wroclaw - Görlitz 2004 ISBN 83-7432-018-4. . Pp. 189-198.
  • The two-time creation account as a hermeneutical key. In: Pokorny, P. ( ed.): Philosophical Hermeneutics and Biblical Exegesis. Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-16-147894-0. , Pp. 238-244.
  • The threefold responsibility of the university. In R. Gepp et al. (Ed.), Education between luxury and necessity. Vienna: LIT- Verlag Wien, 2006, P. 21-27. . Series of WA. Vol 1 ISBN 3-8258-9360- X.
  • Man and religion. Origins - way - orientations. Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-495-48264-3

English

  • What does freedom look like? In: Int. J. Prenatal and perinatal psychology and medicine, Stockholm. Vol 17, 1/2 (2005), p. 181-187. ISSN
  • An Address from Elsewhere ( The Message of Lévinas ). In: Philosophy Today, Chicago, 43 /2 ( 1999), p. 143-150, ISSN.
  • The Two Faces of Time. In: European Review, Vol 9, No. 1, p. 11-18 (2001). ISSN 1062-7987.
  • The market as a place of rules. In: M. T. Vogt ( Ed.), Cultures in encounter. Wroclaw - Görlitz 2004 ISBN 83-7432-018-4. . Pp. 239-243.
  • Language and experience. In: Dynamic structure. Language as an open System. Prague: litteraria Pragensia, 2007, p. . 27-35. ISBN 80-7308-139-3.
  • L' obligation et la vie. In: Pouvoir et vie. UEE Actes de Nice. Cluj: Idea Design & Print, Editura, 2004, p. . 117-125. ISBN 973-7913-27-2.
  • Les Regles: conditions de la liberté concrete. In: Philosophie de l'action. Cluj 2005, ISBN 973-7913-43-4, p. 173-181.
  • Novotný, K. - Sokol, J.: Jan Patocka, penseur d'une politique et Philosophique dissidence. In: Delsol - Maslowski - Nowicki (eds. ): Dissidences. PUF Paris 2005 ISBN. 2-13-054334-0. P. 15-34.
  • D' ou vient l' idée de l' obligation morale? In: Source conception de l' homme aujourd'hui? Zuerich 2003. ISBN 3-908544-50-5. P. 119-130.
  • La pensée européenne de January Patocka. In: Delsol - Maslowski (ed. ): Histoire des idées politiques de l'Europe centrale, p. 496-510. PUF Paris 1998. ISBN 2-13-049071-9

Other languages

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