Radim Palouš (6 November 1924 – 10 September 2015) was a Czech dissident, philosopher, educator, and former spokesman for Charter 77, and from 1990 to 1994, was the rector of

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in Prague.

Life

Palouš was born into a family of journalists and active athletes. After graduating in Prague, he was placed in forced labor during

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. From 1945 onwards, he studied philosophy at

(taught by Jan Patočka), and in 1948 he defended his doctoral thesis on

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s philosophy of youth. He worked as a teacher and studied chemistry at the pedagogical branch in Charles University, where, since 1957, he worked as an assistant. He was qualified in the field of education (Labour School of the modern age), and dealt with the work of Comenius and on modern teaching techniques. His contributions enriched the philosophy of education in

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. In 1976, he signed Charter 77, and from 1982 to 1983 he was its spokesman. Since 1989 until his death, he was a member of the Masaryk Democratic Movement. In November 1989, as one of the representatives of the Civic Forum, he participated in meetings and negotiations during the

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to release

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from its Communist rule. In January 1990, he became the rector of Charles University. He participated in the restoration of the reform of higher education and to restore international relations with the

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. Throughout his times, he traveled and lectured in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia and received nine honorary doctorates (eight at foreign universities and one in the Czech Republic). For his work in publishing writings on Patočka, he was awarded the Prize of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and most notably, for his lifelong work, the third class of the

Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk The Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ( cz, Řád Tomáše Garrigua Masaryka) is an Order of the Czech Republic and the former Czechoslovakia. It was established in 1990 after the Velvet Revolution, and re-established in 1994 (following the diss ...

in 1997. On 10 September 2015, Radim Palouš died.

Works

*Chemie pro uchazeče o studium na vysokých školách, 2. 1965 *Světověk, 1969, 6. 1990 (německy Das Weltzeitalter, 1993) *Škola stáří, 1978 (německy 1979) *K Bolzanovu významu v duchovním vývoji a v národním povědomí, 1981 *Čas výchovy, 1983, 1991 *Česká zkušenost, 1984s, 1994 *Konverze, 1988 *Dopisy kmotřenci 1990 *K filosofii výchovy, 1991 *Komenského Boží svět, 1992 *Osobnost a komunikace, 1990 *Comenius aus Patočka's Sicht, 1993 *Rokování o roku, 1994 *Totalismus a holismus, 1996

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palous, Radim 1924 births 2015 deaths Czech philosophers Charles University alumni Rectors of Charles University Czechoslovak dissidents

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