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In his historic-philosophical essay the author contemplates the philosophical profile of Jan Horarik, a progressive Hungarian thinker at the end of the first half of the XIXth century. First of all he answers the question of how much Horarik belongs to the history of Slovak philosophy. For the greater part of his life Horarik worked in Hungary and it was there where he took active part in political and cultural life. But he was born in Slovakia and there he also died, there he worked as a priest and gained his first experiences concerning the life of people and the ecclesiastical hierarchy — factors to which he always pays a great attention in his work and therefore we are right in mentioning him in the history of Slovak philosophy. Being for the most part still a thinker of the time of Enlightenment Horarik drew' from French utopian socialists and especially from Feuerbach who was his great example. He is the kind of a materialist to be compared with the French materialists of the time of Enlightenment and of the type as was Feuerbach, that is to say a materialist in explaining the phenomena of nature and an idealist in explaining the problems of society. He concentrated all his efforts in the fight against the Church and religion; thus being an adherent of Feuerbach’s antropologism and humanism he saw in God only an image of man whom to supplant and replace by a real man would be the main task. But by overcoming Feuerbach’s abstract humanism his man became a concrete notion and is not that kind of a notion of a man as it is with Feuerbach. His representative is the people, the sole element in the contemporary society which is progressive and capable of development and to which the future belongs. The author then shows that though Horarik was not growing up in the spirit of the Slovak culture we may well consider him as a continuer and accomplisher of some progressive traditions of the Slovak enlightenment. There is a logical continuity.