Jaromír Bartoš

Jaromír Bartoš (born March 28, 1927 in Písečné , † April 13, 1972 in Brno ) was a Czechoslovak philosopher.

biography

The son of a tax official was a freethinker from an early age. This and his atheistic way of life aroused his interest in philosophy. After graduating from high school in Třebíč in 1945 , Bartoš studied history and philosophy from 1945 to 1949 at the Faculty of Philosophy at Masaryk University in Brno. After graduating, he first taught at village schools in Výčapy , Jihlava and Moravské Budějovice . In 1950 he submitted his dissertation on the noetic and axiological system of Karel Engliš . In 1954 he received the post of internal aspirant at the chair of dialectical and historical materialism at the Faculty of Philosophy in Brno. In 1962 Bartoš completed his habilitation, in 1963 he was active as a lecturer and in 1968 received an extraordinary professorship at the university's chair of philosophy.

After the Philosophy Cabinet of the AV ČR was established in Brno in 1969 , Bartoš was appointed its head. In 1972 the institute's course of study was geared towards theology and atheism . Bartoš then ended his activity and became a freelance employee of the Philosophical Institute of the AV ČR in Prague . He worked in academic and ministerial commissions, in the editorial board of Czech and Slovak philosophy.

Teaching

He began his scientific work as an axiologist, but soon turned to fundamental, ontological questions. He mainly dealt with four topics:

1. Questions of dialectic, relationship between dialectical and formal logic.
2. History of philosophical categories (randomness, substance, cause)
3. Analysis of interpretation schemes and models hidden in interpretations of conceptual reproductive movements
4. Pedagogical problems, historically based, but also current issues that require a philological interpretation.

He was concerned with the disclosure and interpretation of complicated conceptual and actual structural relationships. He was also interested in the exploration of chance, to which he dedicated his habilitation thesis. In his work Category nahodilého v dějinách filosofického myšlení , he analyzed the historical development of the term, the current definition of the term and the connection between chance and modern science. Similarly, he also examined the concept of cause. He took this idea further and added the question of how the term makes itself felt in the common mindset of people. He looked for the answer in the interplay of the categories of form and content, possibilities and freedom.

German-language publications

• A contribution to the question of the Aristotelian genome in Hegel's philosophy , Akta kongresu Antiquitas Graeco-Romana ac tempora nostra 1968
• The problem of the incongruence of the natural concepts of interpretation, An attempt at a philosophical-semantic analysis of the concept of randomness, Acts of the XIV International Congress of Philosophy, 1969
• The causal interpretation in everyday thinking and its relation to practice, SPFFBU 1961, G 5
• On the methodology of an evolutionary interpretation of the category of dialectics , SPFFBU 1962, G 6
• In order to achieve an internationally valid standardization of the list of sources for the works of the classics of Marxism-Leninism , SPFFBU 1964, G 8
• The emergence of the theoretical category of randomness in antiquity , Rivista de la cultura e tradizione classica 1966

Web links

• Literature by and about Jaromír Bartoš in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jaromír Bartoš