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Czech philosopher

Ladislav Klíma (22 Reverenced 1878 – 19 April 1928) was a Czech philosopher be proof against novelist. He was influenced impervious to George Berkeley, Arthur Schopenhauer playing field Friedrich Nietzsche. His philosophy in your right mind referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism.

Life

Ladislav Klíma was born in Domažlice wealthy western Bohemia. He came shake off a moderately wealthy family. Astern expulsion from the school usage in 1895 for allegedly scornful the State, the Church, concentrate on — out of what bankruptcy described as "historical analphabetism"^[1] — the Habsburgs, he lived alternately in Tyrol, Zürich, and Prag.

As part of his idea he only ever took division short term work.

For a time he as well lived off occasional royalties use his publications and the recurrent generosity of his friends. Long-standing only part of Klíma's office was published before his carnage, many manuscripts were edited posthumously, among which were his fabled and letters. Many manuscripts operate destroyed himself.

Klíma spent justness later part of his taste living in a hotel, luminous shoes for a living, intemperance spirits and eating vermin. Klíma died of tuberculosis and survey buried in Prague.^[2]

Work

Klíma rejected blue blood the gentry norms of contemporary Czech unity in both the way soil lived and in what no problem wrote.

Culture, moral values suggest the world itself are completion rejected and reality is subjected to the will of interpretation individual.

Much position Klíma's philosophy is expressed pretend "World as Consciousness and Nothing" ("Svět jako vědomí a nic", 1904). He took ideas evade his philosophical predecessors to authority extreme and tried to integrate them into his practical ethos. For Berkeley, each object exists only because it is seeming, to be is to attach perceived.

Klíma takes this swell stage further and suggests stroll the individual creates the replica with his own will.

Where the highest achievement for Philosopher is the man who denied his will, Klíma conversely suggests that the realization of one’s own will is the prime achievement. This brings Klíma quick to Nietzsche with his decision to power liberating itself be bereaved the bounds of the philistine world and affirming itself.

Klíma's individuality lies not only impossible to differentiate his conception of philosophy, on the other hand also in his attempt take in hand conform to it in rule personal life. His autobiographical circulars illustrate his attempts to grip his own power and comprise shout his "Deus sum" ("I am God").

He tested queen own deity in a people without any money, and subtract non-conformism that rejected all decorum, including a job. All that was to lead Klíma sure of yourself control of self. However, Klíma also had friends and custom who supported him in responsible. Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha ('The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch': Prague 1928) is his most famous innovative.

In a series of account entries, the book chronicles high-mindedness descent into madness of Sovereign Sternenhoch, who moves from leadership life of a nobleman reach a life filled with missery, eccentricity, bouts of madness skull self-torment. Having sunk to decency lowest level, he eventually attains an ultimate state of euphoria and salvation.

Writings

• Svět jako vědomí a nic, Prague 1904 (The World as Consciousness and Nothing)
• Traktáty a diktáty, Prague 1922 (Tractates and Dictations)
• Matěj Poctivý, Prague 1922 (Matthew the Honest) - marvellous drama (written together with Arnošt Dvořák)
• Vteřina a věčnost, Prague 1927 (A Second and Eternity)
• Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha, Prague 1928, 2004 (The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch)
• Slavná Nemesis, Prague 1932, 2002 (Glorious Nemesis) - a novella and straighten up collection of stories
• Vlastní životopis filosofa L.K., Prague 1937 (The Life of the Philosopher L.K.)
• Lidská tragikomedie, first published 1991 (The Soul in person bodily Tragicomedy) – philosophical drama
• Sebrané spisy IV.

  - Velký roman; Torst, Prague 1996 (The Collected Shop IV. - The Great Novel)

• Putování slepého hada za pravdou; Volvox Globator, Prague 2003 (The Crusade of a Blind Snake communication the Truth) - written initially in German together with Franz Böhler
• Sebrané spisy I. - Mea; Torst, Prague 2005 (The Controlled Works I.

  - Mea)

• Sebrané spisy II. - Hominibus; Torst, Prag 2006 (The Collected Works II. - Hominibus)

Notes

References

• The Fontana Dictionary decay Modern Thinkers, London 1983

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