Pohled odnikud Nagel Thomas (2025)

Each of us is a particular person, living an individual life and viewing the world from an inner, subjective perspective. At the same time, we can distance ourselves from this original standpoint and look at ourselves and the world from nowhere. These two perspectives are not always easy to reconcile, and the conflicts between them raise difficult problems in every area of philosophy. How can our subjective experience be incorporated into the objective picture of the world developed by modern physics? How can our inner awareness of freedom be reconciled with an external view in which our actions appear merely as part of the flow of events? How can we come to terms with the fact that, from a cosmic perspective, all our ideals, interests and values seem completely insignificant? In this important philosophical work, American philosopher Thomas Nagel examines these and other questions, including the mind-body problem, freedom, the meaning of life, scepticism, the objectivity of values, and the relationship between morality and a good life. The book is in Czech.