Abstract

Jan Pato?ka outlined the basic principles of his phenomenology in the 1960ies, when a possibility appeared for him to publish them in Slovakia. He influenced Slovak philosophy by his contributions on the history of Czech philosophy, by his critical evaluation of the philosophy of Czech history , as well as by developing his double concept of nation in Czech tradition . In his outlines of Czech philosophy he occasionally reviewed also the writings of Slovak philosophers. In interpreting the philosophy of “small nations” his concept of “marginal philosophy” might be inspiring