Aither is a double-blind peer review, Open Access online academic journal. It is indexed at ERIH+. It is published by the Philosophical Faculty of the Palacký University in Olomouc in cooperation with the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It comes out twice a year. Every fourth issue is international (International Issue) and contains foreign-language articles (mainly in English, but also in German and French). The magazine is registered under the number
ISSN 1803-7860.
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Anna Izbedska: The Arabic Commentary on the Golden Verses attributed to Proclus, and its Neoplatonic context
Vojtěch Hladký: Plato’s Three Forms of Impiety in Context Laws X 884a-887c
Jan Brázdil: Key Aspects of Moral Character in the Situationist Challenge
Apostolos N. Stavelas: On Aristotle’s Conception of Fear
ARISTOTLE’S OPINIONS ON TRAGIC POETRY AS A CONTROVERSIAL LEGACY
Aristotle’s opinions are controversial in at least a triple sense First, we have in mind his editing of and commenting on Poetics Second, we may see his work as part of a polemic with his contemporaries with whom he did not agree with over the evaluation of tragic poetry Third, his work is controversial because of the method Aristotle employed and the results…
Theory of Knowledge according to St. Bonaventure
The article deals with St. Bonaventure’s reception of Aristotelianism in the theory of knowledge. It focuses on both sensual and intellectual cognition and reconstructs the main features of St. Bonaventure’s epistemology. While in the realm of senses Bonaventure follows mainly Aristotle as a master of knowledge, in the realm of intellect he is mostly depended on Plato, as the master of wisdom, and St. Augustine. However, the sensual cognition is in Bonaventure influenced by Augustinianism, and intellectual cognition is described with the help of Aristotelian terminology. Bonaventure tries to harmonize both traditions. On the one hand he accepts the necessity of senses for cognition. On the other hand, he emphasises the unchangeability of the object of cognition by means of exemplarism and the infallibility of the
cognizing subject by means illuminism. Bonaventure’s approach is motivated by theology. Philosophy is according to him inseparable from theology, which therefore must have a crucial impact on philosophical thought.
ANALOGIA ENTIS IN THE NOMINALIST TRADITION. MARGINAL NOTES ON FOURTEENTH-CENTURY SEMANTICS
The problem of the analogy of being is at an intersection of ontology and semantics It can be motivated by the following aporia: the assumptions that “being” is meaningful and transcendental and that every super-ordinate concept decomposes into specific concepts by means of specific differences are inconsistent The solution is…
SEARCHING FOR ORIGINS OF EARTH STABILITY CONCEPTION
In his De caelo, Aristotle ascribes to Anaximander of Miletus a conception according to which the Earth remains at its place in the universe only thanks to the symmetry of its position Simplicius, however, in his commentary on this passage from Aristotle, notes that such a formulation can also be found in Plato Aetius, meanwhile, ascribes this entire argument to Parmenides and Democritus. Plato shows…
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Aither. Journal for the study of Greek and Latin philosophical traditions is a double-blind peer review, Open Access online academic journal. It is indexed at ERIH+. Aither is published by the Philosophical Faculty of the Palacký University in Olomouc in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
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