Josef Beneš (philosopher)

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Josef Beneš (born December 27, 1901 in Hronov , † April 20, 1970 in Prague ) was a Czech philosopher.

Life

From 1920 to 1927 Beneš studied philosophy and natural sciences with Josef B. Kozák at Charles University in Prague, then from 1930 to 1932 at Columbia University and Yale University in the USA and from 1932 to 1934 at the Sorbonne . In 1938 he completed his habilitation at Charles University, initially lecturing as a private lecturer and since 1957 as a professor.

Teaching

In the interwar period, Beneš studied rational philosophy from René Descartes , Baruch Spinoza , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Immanuel Kant to Bertrand Russell , Alfred North Whitehead and Edmund Husserl . He considered rationalism to be the active, creative and trend-setting path. Rationalist philosophy, he believes, pursues holistic ideas, brings together individual views and finally unites them to form a consistent, logical picture of reality. After February 1948 he taught Marxist philosophy.

literature

Non-fiction

  • Tvořivá inteligence v theorii. 1933
  • Descartesova metoda ve vědách a ve filosofii. 1936
  • Purkyňův odkaz ve vědě a filosofii. 1957

Collective works

  • Sborníky. Anthology, 1963

Magazine articles

  • O významu filosofie Bergsonovy. I-III, 1930
  • Význam Descartových predikací pro jeho metodu. 1937
  • Purkyňova fysiologie a dialektika. 1957
personal data
SURNAME Beneš, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Hronov , Crown Land of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1970
Place of death Prague , ČSSR