Abstract
Despite being well known now as a philosopher and mathematician, Bernard Bolzano's greatest significance is in ethics. He aimed at the reconciliation between science and faith and exhorted his students to pursue this idea.
Bolzano as a teacher of philosophy influenced candidates of all disciplines, because before specialisation (in jura, medicine and theology) all students first studied philosophy under Bolzano. The main words for Bolzano are virtue and beatitude.
Bolzano wrote a Utopian work „About the best state“, where he demanded state control and direction of science to save its development. As protection from amoral items and from misuse of science he demanded censorship of books.
His pupils and followers each of them in his own way followed their teacher. Anton Krombholz supported industry in north Bohemia and founded special schools, Vincenc Zahradník wrote articles in philosophy and ethics in Bolzanos style.
Zahradník was one of the first thinkers who wrote his work in Czech. Bolzano and his pupils stated that the ethical legacy of Christianity must prevail in the modern times and remain for the future.