Problematika prostoru ve filosofii českého baroka

Abstract

The goal of the article is to draw attention to sources, overlooked to this day, that were important to the historical development of the science of space and vacuum and which date from the beginnings of the modern age, these sources being scholars who were connected to the Czech milieu. The article picks up on a unique exchange of views on the issue of imaginary space that took place between the Prague scholars Rodrigo de Arriaga (1592–1667) and Jan Marek Marci of Kronland (1595–1667); further, an a priori theory of space devised by the Prague Capuchin Valerián Magni (1586–1661) is then discussed. Although these debates did not achieve a clear-cut result, they demonstrate the high intellectual level of the University of Prague milieu and find general significance in the framework of efforts to understand the evolution of views on the nature of space during the early modern period. These older views conditioned further developments regarding this issue, which resulted (though things did not come to a stop there) in the well-known theory of space developed by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century.

Keywords

• jan marek marci from kronland
• rodrigo de arriaga
• imaginary space
• vacuum