Ladislav Hejdánek (10 May 1927 – 28 April 2020) was a Czech philosopher and a proponent of

Charter 77 Charter 77 (''Charta 77'' in Czech and Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří Něm ...

. He was born in

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and graduated from the

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. In 1952 he attained a degree in philosophy with his dissertation "Truth and its ontological premises". From 1956 to 1968 he worked at the Prague Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Then he took a position at the Institute for Philosophy of the

Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Czech: ''Československá akademie věd'', Slovak: ''Česko-slovenská akadémia vied'') was established in 1953 to be the scientific center for Czechoslovakia. It was succeeded by the Czech Academy of Science ...

, but was expelled in 1971. In 1985, Hejdánek established the journal '' Reflexe. Časopis pro filosofii a teologii''. In 1990, he was habilitated at the Charles University in Prague, and two years later became a professor at that university. He later became chairman of the Unity of Philosophy and then Chairman of the Emanuel Rádl Foundation. Hejdánek died on 28 April 2020 at the age of 92.Zemřel profesor Hejdánek, signatář a mluvčí Charty 77

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Ladislav Hejdánek: Curriculum vitae

Professor, PhDr. Ladislav Hejdánek
— a biographical article at the website "Memory of Nation"
Books by Ladislav Hejdánek

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