Let’s not be naive for the first time, let’s try to look at the things of life from deeper positions
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Jiří Fuchs was born on October 25, 1947 in Žatec as the third son of Luděk and Miroslava Fuchs. His father, a civil engineer, led his sons in his footsteps, but he graduated early from the construction industry and after military basic service, which he completed with tankers in Klatovy, he took a job as a warehouse keeper in Charity. He devoted all his spare time to his band Ad antikva and to the study of philosophy, which he completely fell into at that time. His meeting with the philosopher and writer P. Metoděj Habáň was crucial for him. The Dominican priest welcomed him into the community of the Catholic Church and became his de facto teacher. In the seventies and eighties, he served as a night watchman at the National Museum, which provided ample space for him to study and prepare for residential philosophical seminars attended mainly by university students. After the Velvet Revolution, he led philosophy courses at the Dominican monastery in Prague. As a critic of modern thought, he headed the editorial team of Distance, a journal of critical thinking, taught courses at Academia Bohemica, and collaborated with the Civic Institute. In 2025 he lived in Prague-Hloubětín.
