Aristotelovo pojetí příčiny

• Thesis title in Czech: Aristotelovo pojetí příčiny
• Thesis title in English: Aristotle´s theory of cause
• Key words: Aristotelés, příčina, účinná příčina, látková příčina, formální příčina, účelová příčina, aitia, hylémorfismus, esence, bytnost, substance, příroda, fysis
• English key words: Aristotle, cause, efficient cause, material cause, formal cause, final cause, aitia, hylemorphism, essence, substance, nature, phusis
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2010/2011
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: čeština
• Department: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Karel Thein, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 08.06.2011
• Date of assignment: 08.06.2011
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 12.03.2012
• Date and time of defence: 04.06.2013 00:00
• Date of electronic submission: 03.05.2013
• Date of proceeded defence: 04.06.2013
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: doc. Mgr. Jakub Jinek, Dr. phil.

Guidelines

Příčina hraje v Aristotelově filozofickém systému výsadní roli v rámci způsobu, jak učinit svět srozumitelný. Ve své práci bych se rád zaměřil na roli příčiny jako vysvětlujícího prostředku, který Aristoteles aplikuje na mnohá odvětví antické vědy. Z bakalářské práce by měla vyplynout důležitost pojmu příčinnosti jako zásadního filozofického tématu, která stojí v pozadí vysvětlování v rámci jednotlivých věd a bez kteréhožto pojmu by Aristotelova podoba vědy byla zcela nemyslitelná.

References

Literatura:
Sorabji, R., Necessity, Cause, and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle´s Theory, Ithaca 1980/1983
Judson, L. (ed.), Aristotle´s Physics: A Collection of Essays, Oxford 1991/2003
Leunissen, M., Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle´s Science of Nature, Cambridge 2010
Frede, M., 1980, “The Original Notion of Cause,” in J. Barnes, M. F. Burnyeat, M. Schofield (eds.),
Doubt and Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 217–249; reprinted in M. Frede, Essays in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Shields, C., , 2007, “Explaining Nature and Nature of Explanation”, in C. Shields, Aristotle, London/New York: Routledge, pp. 36–97.
Schofield, M., 1991, “Explanatory Projects in Physics 2.3 and 7,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (Supplementary Volume), IX: 29–40.

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Annas, J., 1982, “Inefficient Causes,” Philosophical Quarterly, 32: 311–322; reprinted in T. Irwin (ed.), Classical Philosophy. Collected Papers, New York/London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 11–27.
Bogen, J., 1974, “Moravcsik on Explanation,” Synthese, 28: 19–25.
Code, A., 1987, “Soul as Efficient Cause in Aristotle's Embryology,” Philosophical Topics, 15: 51–59.
–––, 1997, “The Priority of Final Causes over Efficient Causes in Aristotle's Parts of Animals,” in W. Kullmann and S. Föllinger (eds.), Aristotelische Biologie, Stuttgart: Steiner, pp. 127–143.
Freeland, C., 1991, “Accidental Causes and Real Explanations,” in L. Judson (ed.), Aristotle's Physics: A Collection of Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 49–72.
Hocutt, M., 1974, “Aristotle's Four Becauses,” Philosophy, 49: 385–399.
Matthen, M., 1989, “The Four Causes in Aristotle's Embryology,” Apeiron (Special Issue, Nature, Knowledge and Virtue, R. Kraut and T. Penner, eds.), 22 (4): 159–180.
Moravcsik, J. M., 1974, “Aristotle on Adequate Explanations,” Synthese, 28: 3–17. –––, 1991, “What Makes Reality Intelligible? Reflections on Aristotle's Theory of Aitia,” in L. Judson (ed.) Aristotle's Physics: A Collection of Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 31–48.
–––, 1995, “Philosophic Background of Aristotle's Aitia,” in M. Sim (ed.), The Crossroads of Norm and Nature. Essays on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 237–246.
Mure, G. R. G., 1975, “Cause and Because in Aristotle,” Philosophy, 50: 356–357.
Schofield, M., 1991, “Explanatory Projects in Physics 2.3 and 7,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (Supplementary Volume), IX: 29–40.
Sprague, R. K., 1968, “The Four Causes: Aristotle's Exposition and Ours,” Monist, 52: 298–300.
Todd, R. B., 1976, “The Four Causes: Aristotle's Exposition and the Ancients,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 37: 319–322.
van Fraassen, B., 1980, “A Re-examination of Aristotle's Philosophy of Science,” Dialogue, 19: 20–45.

Further Reading:
• J. Annas, “Aristotle on Inefficient Causes,” Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1982), reprinted in T. Irwin (ed.), Aristotle: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Natural Philosophy (New York: 1995).
• D. Charles, “Aristotle on Hypothetical Necessity and Irreducibility,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 69 (1988).
• C.A. Freeland, “Accidental Causes and Real Explanations,” and J.M. Moravcsik, “What Makes Reality Intelligible? Reflections on Aristotle’s Theory of Aitia,” in L. Judson (ed.), Aristotle’s Physics: a Collection of Essays (Oxford: 1991).
• S.S. Meyer, “Aristotle, Teleology and Reduction,” Philosophical Review 101 (1992).
• D. Sedley, “Is Aristotle’s Teleology Anthropocentric?” Phronesis 36 (1991).