Sdílené lidství - Přemýšlení o lásce, pravdě a spravedlnosti – Gaita Raimond (2023)

Raimond Gaita is an Australian-British philosopher and writer, known to Czech readers only through a few translations of selected texts. His book Shared Humanity: Reflections on Love, Truth, and Justice is a highly relevant text that presents philosophical themes of good and evil, racism, genocide, and the responsibility of intellectuals in troubled times to a wider audience in an engaging manner. It combines the author's deep understanding of all disadvantaged or oppressed individuals with his exceptional ability to reflect on pressing contemporary issues in an original and sensitive way, which earned the book recognition in The Economist (Books of the Year 2000), The Times Literary Supplement, and The Philosopher’s Magazine. The author, who is an emeritus professor at King’s College London and the University of Melbourne and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Pardubice, utilizes the results of his life's work contained in his influential scholarly monograph Good and Evil: an Absolute Conception in Shared Humanity. At the same time, Shared Humanity also showcases him as a gifted writer, whose partly autobiographical bestseller Romulus, My Father was published a year before its completion, and whose film adaptation from the year...