Nous thurathen: between Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10495638" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10495638 - isvavai.cz</a>
Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jkL26yLrms" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jkL26yLrms</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2265970" target="_blank" >10.1080/09608788.2023.2265970</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Nous thurathen: between Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
The idea that nous comes from without, deriving from Aristotle's Generation of Animals II.3, became a key element in late ancient and Medieval accounts of human rationality drawing on Aristotle's De Anima. But two very different understandings of the concept were around (often occurring next to each other): either it was taken to refer to the human capacity for thought and its origin outside the natural ontogenetic process; or it was taken to stand for the most perfect act of thought, existing separately as the supreme divinity, and becoming, hopefully, ours at the very climax of human development. This paper shows how these two influential conceptions derive from the work of the two greatest scholars of Aristotle's school, Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias, respectively. More to the point: it shows that (i) there is an intriguing philosophical story to be told of how the notion developed from one understanding to the other, this being the core of a larger story of nous from without in Western thought; and that (ii) this story sheds new light on what was at stake in the early - genuinely Peripatetic - reception of Aristotle's account of nous (as contrasted with later, heavily Platonized, interpretations).
Název v anglickém jazyce
Nous thurathen: between Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias
Popis výsledku anglicky
The idea that nous comes from without, deriving from Aristotle's Generation of Animals II.3, became a key element in late ancient and Medieval accounts of human rationality drawing on Aristotle's De Anima. But two very different understandings of the concept were around (often occurring next to each other): either it was taken to refer to the human capacity for thought and its origin outside the natural ontogenetic process; or it was taken to stand for the most perfect act of thought, existing separately as the supreme divinity, and becoming, hopefully, ours at the very climax of human development. This paper shows how these two influential conceptions derive from the work of the two greatest scholars of Aristotle's school, Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias, respectively. More to the point: it shows that (i) there is an intriguing philosophical story to be told of how the notion developed from one understanding to the other, this being the core of a larger story of nous from without in Western thought; and that (ii) this story sheds new light on what was at stake in the early - genuinely Peripatetic - reception of Aristotle's account of nous (as contrasted with later, heavily Platonized, interpretations).
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
—
OECD FORD obor
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
<a href="/cs/project/GA22-21829S" target="_blank" >GA22-21829S: Plótínův pojem života a jeho aristotelské kořeny</a><br>
Návaznosti
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2025
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
ISSN
0960-8788
e-ISSN
1469-3526
Svazek periodika
33
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
1
Stát vydavatele periodika
GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska
Počet stran výsledku
22
Strana od-do
26-47
Kód UT WoS článku
001099723700001
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-85176126670