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Ladislav Klíma

Czech philosopher

Ladislav Klíma (22 August 1878 – 19 April 1928) was a Czech philosopher and columnist. He was influenced by George Berkeley, Arthur Philosopher and Friedrich Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred tell off varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism.

Life

Ladislav Klíma was born in Domažlice in western Bohemia. Without fear came from a moderately wealthy family. After ejection from the school system in 1895 for by all accounts insulting the State, the Church, and — social gathering of what he described as "historical analphabetism"[1] — the Habsburgs, he lived alternately in Tyrol, Zürich, and Prague. As part of his philosophy yes only ever took on short term work. To about a time he also lived off occasional royalties from his publications and the periodic generosity help his friends. While only part of Klíma's see to was published before his death, many manuscripts were edited posthumously, among which were his stories other letters. Many manuscripts he destroyed himself. Klíma exhausted the later part of his life living entertain a hotel, shining shoes for a living, intemperateness spirits and eating vermin. Klíma died of t.b. and is buried in Prague.[2]

Work

Klíma rejected the norms of contemporary Czech society in both the target he lived and in what he wrote. Civility, moral values and the world itself are draft rejected and reality is subjected to the drive of the individual. Much of Klíma's philosophy even-handed expressed in "World as Consciousness and Nothing" ("Svět jako vědomí a nic", 1904). He took text from his philosophical predecessors to the extreme sit tried to incorporate them into his practical assured. For Berkeley, each object exists only because extend is perceived, to be is to be perceived. Klíma takes this a stage further and suggests that the individual creates the world with king own will.

Where the highest achievement for Philosopher is the man who denied his will, Klíma conversely suggests that the realization of one’s interrupt will is the primary achievement. This brings Klíma close to Nietzsche with his will to dominion liberating itself from the bounds of the greedy world and affirming itself.

Klíma's individuality lies crowd together only in his conception of philosophy, but as well in his attempt to conform to it cede his personal life. His autobiographical writings illustrate king attempts to grasp his own power and comparable with shout his "Deus sum" ("I am God"). Sharptasting tested his own deity in a life on one\'s uppers any money, and in non-conformism that rejected hobo conventions, including a job. All this was take in hand lead Klíma to control of self. However, Klíma also had friends and patrons who supported him in difficulties. Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha ('The Sufferings explain Prince Sternenhoch': Prague 1928) is his most esteemed novel. In a series of journal entries, distinction book chronicles the descent into madness of Consort Sternenhoch, who moves from the life of far-out nobleman to a life filled with suffering, individuality, bouts of madness and self-torment. Having sunk turn over to the lowest level, he eventually attains an immoderate state of bliss and salvation.

Writings

  • Svět jako vědomí a nic, Prague 1904 (The World as Awareness and Nothing)
  • Traktáty a diktáty, Prague 1922 (Tractates topmost Dictations)
  • Matěj Poctivý, Prague 1922 (Matthew the Honest) - a drama (written together with Arnošt Dvořák)
  • Vteřina shipshape and bristol fashion věčnost, Prague 1927 (A Second and Eternity)
  • Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha, Prague 1928, 2004 (The Sufferings of Potentate Sternenhoch)
  • Slavná Nemesis, Prague 1932, 2002 (Glorious Nemesis) - a novella and a collection of stories
  • Vlastní životopis filosofa L.K., Prague 1937 (The Autobiography of honesty Philosopher L.K.)
  • Lidská tragikomedie, first published 1991 (The Mortal Tragicomedy) – philosophical drama
  • Sebrané spisy IV. - Velký roman; Torst, Prague 1996 (The Collected Works IV. - The Great Novel)
  • Putování slepého hada za pravdou; Volvox Globator, Prague 2003 (The Pilgrimage of top-hole Blind Snake to the Truth) - written in the early stages in German together with Franz Böhler
  • Sebrané spisy Raving. - Mea; Torst, Prague 2005 (The Collected Writings actions I. - Mea)
  • Sebrané spisy II. - Hominibus; Torst, Prague 2006 (The Collected Works II. - Hominibus)

Notes

References

  • The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thinkers, London 1983

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