What's in a Prague street name

Filosofská was built in 1941.

You know what philosophy is. You know what a philosopher is. But we’re not here because of Socrates, Plato, and whichever person on your feed has declared that he (it’s always a he) too is a philosopher and should therefore be listened to.

We’re here because of Alois Jirásek, and his 1878, Litomyšl-set novel Filosofská historie, which you can read a fair bit about on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/07/prague-4-day-273-vavrenova/.