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Rudolph (Rudy) Krejci, (Czech: Rudolf Václav Krejčí, , 4 March 1929) is a Czechoslovakian-American philosopher and professor. Krejci is known for his lifelong battle against two ideologies of the 20th Century - Nazism and Communism in favor of the open society.〔Jiri Gabriel, Jan Zouhar: Czech Philosopher in Alaska. Interview with Rudolph W. Krejci. Studia Minora Facultaties Philosophicae Universitatis Brunensis, B 48, p 117-133, 2001, ISSN 0231-7664 ()〕〔Takashi Kato: Philosopher under the Midnite Sun originally published in Japanese, translated into English and then into Czech and published in Studia philosophica. 2014, year 61, number 1, p. ()-9 Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2014 ISSN 1803-7445 ()〕 Rudy Krejci has lifelong determination "to speak out for intellectual and cultural freedom," even as his personal safety and freedom were threatened repeatedly.〔〔John Creed, description of Documentary about Rudy Krejci written on May 18, 2012 ()〕 Krejci is the founder of the Philosophy and Humanities Programs at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and founder of the College of Arts and Sciences at University of Alaska and its first Dean in 1975.〔Michael Welsh, UAF College of Liberal Arts: Thank you Rudy Krejci!, Fairbanks, 2009. ()〕〔Alaska Humanities Forum, Newsletter, Spring 2010 - Rudy Krejci is receiving Awards for Humanities from 2009 Governor ()〕〔Rudy Krejci is interviewed by Dan O'Neill in Fairbanks, Alaska on June 16, 2011 ()〕 Krejci lectured on philosophy in the USA, Canada, England, Europe and Asia and cooperated with the International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria, Dr. Siu's Panetics in Washington D.C.,〔(Debra Rae: New Spirituality, Old Lie. 2010 )〕 Dr. Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy in Vienna,〔Rudolph Krejci, Logotherapy East - West, The International Forum for Logotherapy, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1986, pp. 40-46.()〕 and Dr. Takashima's Humanistic Anthropology in Tokyo. In 1997 Krejci became the Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Humanities after his 37 years of service at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.〔(UAF - list of Administration, Faculty and Emerity, 2014/2015 Catalog )〕 == Biography == Rudy Krejci was born in Hrusky, Moravia (then Czechoslovakia) in 1929. His father a railwayman, was a Czechoslovak who received his basic education solely in German. His mother was a Moravian-Slovak with Czech education. Krejci studied at high school in Kromeriz and Brno, where he was introduced to Philosophy thanks to professor Antonin Kriz, who translated Aristoteles work into Czech language.〔 His studies and freedom ended on May 1 in 1949 when, Krejci as a member of a anticommunist dissident student group was persecuted. Krejci had to go into hiding in a secret room of his father's apartment, where he stayed for five years.〔〔〔Dan O'Neill: Project Chariot Thoughts on History, Public Policy and Ethics, Frame of Reference, An Irregular Publication of the Alaska Humanities Forum, Vol.1, No.1, July, 1989 ()〕〔Documentary about Rudy Krejci on Czech Public Television, published January 17, 2015 ()〕 In May 1954 with help of his father he escaped Czechoslovakia while hiding in a coffin under a coal wagon covered with vinegar and mustard. Krejci found his freedom across the Iron Curtain in Vienna, Austria. From 1954-1959 Krejci studied at University of Innsbruck, Austria, majoring in philosophy, psychology, Russian history and literature. In 1959 he became a Doctor of Philosophy.〔 Krejci then went to USA to work as a engineer for Bechtel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel〔 and later in 1960 he was offered a contract to teach Russian and German at University of Alaska Fairbanks. Two years later he established a program in Philosophy to which he, after 13 years, added a program in Humanities. After one year as a dean of Arts and Letters he formed a new College of Arts and Sciences.〔〔Alaska Dispatch News, Rudy Krejci receiving Governor's Awards, Retrieved 04/15/2015 ()〕 Krejci's career with the university almost ended during a political dispute with a former University of Alaska president (William Ransom Wood) for opposing Project Chariot, scheme by the federal government to detonate up to six nuclear explosions along the northwest coast of Alaska to create a new deep water harbour for future mineral extraction. For opposing project Chariot, says Krejci, "Wood came to me and told me: ''"If you go on as you do now, there is only one way, one way from Alaska, direct, down to lower states.'' This is what he told me." With Krejci's involvement, Project Chariot never happened.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rudolph Krejci」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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