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Jiří Nesiba, Josef Smolík:
Mezi racionalismem a judaismem: filosofická sebereflexe Raymonda Arona [Between Rationalism and Judaism: Raymond Aron’s Philosophical Self-reflection]

Nesiba, J., J. Smolík. 2018. „Mezi racionalismem a judaismem: filosofická sebereflexe Raymonda Arona.“ Acta Fakulty filozofické Západočeské univerzity v Plzni 10 (1): 27–47.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24132/actaff.2018.10.1.2

Abstract
The paper analyses the work of French philosopher Raymond Aron from the perspective of how he was influenced by his personal experience with anti-Semitism and how it changed his description of Judaism. The article focuses on the fact that Aron preferred a methodological approach instead of actual emotions as a member of the assimilated Jewish minority in France. The paper notes Aron's commentary about changes in society regarding the Jewish minority in the time after the Dreyfus Affair in France, during Nazism, after the establishment of the state of Israel, during the Six-Day War, or from the 1970s on with the emergence of the Palestinian problem and the rise of right-wing politics in Israel. The authors proceeded by analyzing Aron's academic and journalistic texts chronologically as they were published during his life or after his death. The authors show the consistency in Aron's thinking. The authors investigate the extent to which these political events transformed Aron's thinking and how he copes with his own philosophical self-reflection on Judaism, demanding strict scientific objectivity on the one hand and understanding religious tradition on the other. The Presented analysis describes how Aron in the social sciences preferred methodologies before the analysis itself. He implemented this approach in his studies and articles that analyzed Judaism, for which he felt a personal emotional sentiment.

Key words
Raymond Aron, anti-Semitism, Judaism, Israel, rationalism

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