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The author discusses the philosophical profile of Ján Feješ, this prominent publicist and philosopher of the are of Slovak Enlightenment, by the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth. In his works Feješ was concerned predominantly with social problems, very timely in that period. Feješ pleaded for many innovations in a new, bourgeois order; however, he did not advocate the dethronement of the feudal Austrian monarchy, only its reformation. His thinking was to a great extent influenced by western philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment, such as Hobbes, Locke, partially also by Rousseau, and by German classical philosophy, too. He introduced the method of historical explanation of phenomena into the Slovak philosophy of Enlightenment.