Chapter 11
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The father of Modráček the architect, Docent Zdeněk Modráček, taught Introduction to Philosophy and Logic at the University of Brno. But shortly after the occupation of Czechoslovakia, he died, following a rather banal operation for a pulmonary embolism.
Docent Modráček was chiefly interested in Christian philosophy. More precisely, in that branch of the same, which had been influenced in a decisive manner by Vladimir Solovyov, that most noteworthy representative of religious philosophy in Russia. He had translated Solovyov’s fundamental works into Czech: The Crisis of Western Philosophy, and Lectures on Divine Humanity. Among the followers of Solovyov, he was most interested in Nikolai Berdyayev, that metaphysical existentialist. From among his works he had tran
