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Modern man lacks a unified conception of the world. He lives in a dual world: in his environment, which is naturally given to him, and, at the same time, in the world which since the beginning of the modern era has been created for him by sciences founded upon the principle that the laws of nature are, in essence, mathematical. The non-unity which has thus come to penetrate our entire life is the true source of the spiritual crisis we are going through today.

Jan Patočka

Jan Patočka

Jan Patočka

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Born: June 1, 1907

Died: March 13, 1977 (aged 69)

Bio: Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Due to his contributions to phenomenology and the philosophy of history he is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.

Known for:

Body, community, language, world
Plato and Europe
The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem
Introduction to Husserl's Phemelogy

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