František Sedlák: mezi anarchismem, tolstojovstvím a hegeliánstvím

Abstract

The article focuses on the conception of absolute idealism elaborated by Czech Hegelian František Sedlák. First, Max Stirner’s position of egoism is presented, as Sedlák was influenced by his critique of the conceptual vertical, i.e. of the subsumption of the individual under abstractions. Second, it examines how Sedlák employed such critique in resolving the so-called “paradox of authority.” Third, it sketches both Sedlák’s reception and critique of Tolstoyanism, at whose conceptual core he encountered a problem associated with conception of abstract morality, which he criticized at first from the standpoint of Stirnerian egoism, later from the standpoint of Hegelian absolute idealism. Finally, Sedlák’s conception of absolute idealism as a philosophy of existence is reconstructed.

Keywords

• františek sedlák
• max stirner
• leo tolstoy
• g. w. f. hegel
• egoism
• tolstoyanism
• hegelianism
• conceptual vertical
• concrete morality
• absolute idealism