Open AccessPhilosophy at the Evangelical College in Prešov in the Contexts of European Intellectual Development
Author(s) -
Rudolf Dupkala
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
studia z historii filozofii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2391-775X
pISSN - 2083-1978
DOI - 10.12775/szhf.2021.020
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , sociology , value (mathematics) , intellectual development , western philosophy , epistemology , philosophy , religious studies , social science , psychology , developmental psychology , linguistics , machine learning , computer science
The leitmotif of the paper is an analysis and interpretation of philosophy at the Evangelical College in Prešov, Slovakia, in the contexts of European intellectual development from the 17th to the 20th century. The research focuses on the response to and reception of Francis Bacon’s philosophy in the work of his Prešov follower – Ján Bayer, reflections on Kant’s aesthetics in the work of the Prešov professor Michal Greguš and the explanation of Nietzsche’s immoralism in the work of Jaromír Červenka. The paper emphasises that philosophy at the Evangelical College contributed to the development of spiritual culture in Slovakia and became part of its cultural heritage. According to the author of the paper, the value of philosophy at the Evangelical College in Prešov lies precisely (and above all) in its ability to creatively reinterpret and apply the key concepts of European philosophy into the philosophical systems of Bayer, Greguš and Červenka.