Philosophical roots of the slovak national revival movement in mid-19th century: A case study on the Memorandum events of 1861 in Turciansky Sv. Martin

Abstract

The Memorandum events from June 1861 constitute an important milestone in the development and shaping of the Slovak nation, its culture, political self-awareness, and national self-determination. Formulated and approved by the First Slovak National Gathering on June 6-7, 1861 in Martin, the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation to the upper chamber of the Hungarian parliament, containing the Petitions of the Slovak Nation which ask for a just enactment of the law with regard to equality of the nations in Hungary, reflected not only the political ambitions but also philosophical and religious convictions (and presuppositions) of the leading figures of the third phase of the Slovak National Revival Movement in mid-19th century.

The Roots of Slovak Utopianism and Utopian Concepts of 1848

“…He preferred an agreement between nations to guarantee equality of people over the law and the natural right of man in the spirit of the principle of equality of nations (eternal natural law). Daxner applied his ideas to an important historical and legal document -The Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (1861) (see Valco et al 2020)…”

“…The presented study consists of research in the field of social philosophy, political philosophy and philosophy of history and uses an analytical and comparative method with primary (Slovak articles and books from the 19th century) and secondary sources (interpretations of selected experts for this topic). In the scientific context of the presented topic there are only a few indexed articles in the Web of Science and Scopus (Veselá 2016;Maxwell 2018; Odlerová, Hyllova 2019; Gluchman 2020; Valco et al 2020), many more studies on the topic have been published outside of indexed sources (Várossová 1969;Bodnár 1987;Pichler 2006;Hajko 2007;Dupkala 2009;Brock 2012;Nedashkovskaya, Myagkov 2017;Hajko 2018). The topic is very little reflected in the international context and the presented study is an introduction for possible further, more detailed studies.…”