A pedagogical experiment, which I describe in this text and whose partial yet considerably significant outcomes I present, revealed a number of problems considering how students are able to deal with a philosophical example (or rather a sophism), though at a simple lev...

The study focuses on practical possibilities of philosophical thinking in tuition. The first part foreshadows the idea of university or knowledge, from Heidegger’s viewpoint predominantly, and, at the same time, it defines against the prevailing calculative thinking and education by&...

Study deals with the consideration of The Art of English Poesy by George Puttenham (1529 or 1530 – 1591) that focuses on the concept of imitatio, particularly the concept of imitatio in Puttenham’s works and ideas of ancient authors (especially Horace, Virgil and ...

The study deals with the main tenets of the Elizabethan Poetics, as 1) the concept of poesy as creating fictional worlds and the concept of poet as a “maker”, 2) moral and social role of poetry and the concept of “doctrine by ensample”, 3) unity of poetic...

This study analyses the masterwork of Spanish Reinassaince anatomist Juan Valverde de Hamusco. Firstly, there is introduced Valverde’s life and his significant part of education in Italy. Especially important is his medical activity in the University of Padua, which is outstandi...

In 1949 when the Department of Theatrology was transferred from the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University to the Theatre Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts the Department of Theatre Science and Dramaturgy became the main centre of research of history and theory...

The article is devoted to the problems of the summer holiday settlements for children at the time of the First Republic. It draws attention to the great development of the holiday activities after the WWI. Holiday settlements were held by all sorts of institutions, ...

The German Turner Association, which existed in the Czechoslovak Republic between 1919 and 1938, and the Working Community of Sudeten German Turners in the Sudeten German Compatriot Association, where after the war the displaced Turners were organised, had a very specific i...

The article deals with the second life of the expedition of the airship “Italia” in the Czech environment, its image in literature, film and poetry. Attention is given to the political context. Rescue of “daredevils from black shirt country” by red icebreaker was seen&#...