Aither is a double-blind peer review, Open Access online academic journal. It is indexed at ERIH+ and Scopus. It is published by the Faculty of Arts 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 second issue is international and contains foreign-language articles (mainly in English, but also in German and French). The journal is registered under the number ISSN 1803-7860.
Aither 7/2012:145-189 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2012.007
The article deals with the ideas about history of knowledge, which were widespread in the Renaissance period, especially between representatives of Platonism. The Renaissance platonists did not understand the history of knowledge as a continuous progress, but were convinced of the existence of ancient wisdom (prisca sapientia), to be restored.
Published: March 30, 2012 Show citation
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