Presents the debate between Tomas G. Masaryk & Czech politician Josef Kaizl about the problematic relationship between pragmatics & principles in politics. Masaryk's Ceska otazka(The Czech Question [1895]), which seeks reason & a particular sense of Czech national essence, represents one of the first & most influential attempts to structure the various semantic centers around which Czech political culture revolves. Subjecting Masaryk's religious-humanistic analysis of Czech history to a liberal-economic critique, Kaizl rejected Masaryk's reduced, theistic, & anti-Enlightenment interpretation of the national revival, as well as his explicitly antiliberalist grasp of Czech history. Kaizl also denied Masaryk's claim that spiritual life & spiritual independence are more pressing concerns than political life & state independence.
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机译：介绍Tomas G. Masaryk与捷克政客Josef Kaizl之间关于政治中的实用主义与原则之间的问题性关系的辩论。 Masaryk的Ceska otazka（捷克问题[1895]）寻求理性和对捷克民族本质的特殊理解，是构造捷克政治文化所围绕的各种语义中心的最早也是最有影响力的尝试之一。凯泽尔对马萨里克对捷克历史的宗教-人文分析进行了自由经济评论，但他拒绝了马萨里克对民族复兴的简化，有神论和反启蒙的解释，以及他对捷克历史的明确的反自由主义的把握。凯兹尔还否认马萨里克的主张，即精神生活和精神独立比政治生活和国家独立更为紧迫。
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