Jan Patočkas Dissident Philosophy of History: Human Bondage and the Risk of History

This is the first lecture of the series. What is the world This may seem like a strange question, but it is the one that opens Jan Patočkas Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, which he wrote in Sovietcontrolled Czechoslovakia in the mid1970s and originally circulated as samizdat (underground literature). In Patočkas first essay, he suggests that the prehistoric world is rich in meaning, but that it is defined by a radical form of human bondage the bondage of life to itself. (The lecture will clarify what that means. ) For Patočka, history begins, not when writingcultures emerge, but rather when humans first begin to question their picture of the world. It is this question What is the world which both incurs great risks and signals the appearance of human freedom. Music Info: Flying and Uplifting No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: Outro Music by ComaMedia from Pixabay