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.
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Aither 1/2009:9-22 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.002
According to the tradition, most Presocratics should have titled their works as Peri phuseos ("On Nature"). Although it is now mostly supposed that the Presocratic s did not label their works with this title, the question arises whether they were engaged in the investigation peri phuseos or, in the other words, whether they used phusis as a philosophical concept, i.e., as an object of their philosophical investigation. The question is all the more important if we take into account that the Milesians are often considered to be the first philosophers because of their concern in the regularity and orderliness of Nature ( phusis) as contrasted with divine...
Aither 1/2009:23-41 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.003
The paper focuses on the first part of the dialogue (Gor. 447a-448e), usually dismissed by scholars as a mere prelude. However, author shows how essential this part is for the interpretation of the debate between Socrates and Gorgias and moreover for understanding of the dialogue and its structure as a whole. Base of Kryštof Bohaček's methodology is emphasis on the dialogical reading, research of literary form and their relevance for the philosophy.On the basis of structural analogy with an attic tragedy, role of the prelude is identified first, through which the short debate "with Pol" is presented as another fundamental key to contextual interpretation....
Aither 1/2009:42-51 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.004
Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis is first of all a display of culinary extravagancies and intellectual paltriness of the participants. However, most researchers agree that in some passages the Roman author parodies a sophisticated philosophical dialogue - Plato's Symposium. A passage like that is held to be the conversation of freedmen in chapters 41-47 whose discussion in the absence of their host has certain structural similarities with Plato's model. As the Italian researcher F. Bessone showed, in both works the conversation of the participants has the form of a convivial agon (despite not being formally proclaimed in Cena Trimalchionis), the number...
Aither 1/2009:52-61 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.005
The article deals with the relation of Thomas Aquinas to the problem of one intellect in the thought of the Arabic thinker Averroes. The first part pays attention to selected aspects of Aquinas' criticism of the theory that proclaims the existence of one collective soul and one common intellect. On the background of the epistemological questions, which concern the theory of species intelligibilis, phantasms, the theory of coniunctio, or the intelligibility of separated substances, the author tries to elucidate Aquinas' arguments against not only Averroes but also other thinkers (Themistius, Theofrastus, Avicenna, Avempace). In the second part of the...
Aither 1/2009:62-76 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.006
The paper deals with the problem of theological determinism. It formulates a specimen of deterministic argument based on the fact that in classical theism God is regarded as the First Cause, i.e. ontologically responsible for the being and specificity of every actual entity. Then it examines a compatibilist solution proposed by D. Alvarez in the early 17 th century. It is found to be acceptable only if some assumptions are granted. These are by no means obvious, nevertheless the final judgment is left to the reader to make.
Aither 1/2009:117-119 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.008
Aither 1/2009:77-116 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.007
