Philosophical and geopolitical resources for ethical justification of the national and state revival of the suppressed nations in Central Europe

Miloslav Bednář

doi:10.2478/ebce-2022-0018

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Philosophical and geopolitical resources for ethical justification of the national and state revival of the suppressed nations in Central Europe

Ethics & Bioethics

Volume 12 (2022): Issue 3-4 (December 2022)

By: Miloslav Bednář

Open Access

|Dec 2022

Abstract

This reflection examines the context of philosophical-ethical research and its preceding and continuing particular geopolitical framework in the central zone of Central Europe in the case of the national and state revival of the Czech nation. It focuses on the work and endeavour of František Palacký and its interpretive development by Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, which resulted in the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic. In this context, it finally outlines the significance of the dramatic Central European affairs since the turn of 1989 to the Russian war on Ukraine.

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