Reflexe Aristotelových pojmů FRONÉSIS a THEÓRIA v Patočkově třetím pohybu existence (Reflection of Aristotle’s Terms FRONESIS and THEORIA in Patočka’s Third Movement of Existence)

Abstract

Jan Patočka, who drew inspiration for his own philosophy not only in the important phenomenologist Hannah Arendt but also in Greek philosophy, at one point in his philosophical development, surprisingly turned away from Socrates and Plato and inclined to Aristotle and his concept of action. As with Arendt, this concept forms the pillar of his thinking, and the aim of this text is to indicate the possible connection of this leaning towards Aristotle with the study of Patočka’s friend and colleague Eugen Finek called PHRONESIS und THEORIA. It is these Aristotelian concepts that prove to be crucial for the further development of Patočka’s thought and his concept of action. In addition, there are similarities, but also differences in Patočka and Fink’s concept of human finitude, which is very closely related to the act.

Keywords

• jan patočka
• aristotle
• hannah arendt
• eugen fink
• action
• theoria
• fronesis
• finality