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Differences in Plato's, Aristotele's and Aurelius Augustinus' Understanding to Virtue
Kavanová, Blanka ; Blažková, Miloslava (advisor) ; Hauser, Michael (referee)
Bachelor's Thesis: Difference in Plato's, Aristotle's and Aurelius Augustinus' Understanding to Virtue Name: Blanka Kavanová Faculty: Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy Year: 2011 ABSTRACT The bachelor's thesis is concerned with the development and differences in Plato's, Aristotle's and Aurelius Augustinus' concept of virtue. The first part is focused on Plato's concept of four basic virtues, i.e. moderation/reasonableness, justice, courage and wisdom. In connection with these virtues, also his concepts of the good, soul, soul care and the duality of the worlds are outlined. From Plato's viewpoint, the virtue is seen as areté, i.e. excellence or the unity of soul goodness. In the second part of the work, the concept of Plato is compared with ideas of his disciple, friend and critic Aristotle. His concept of virtue is based on human experience in the sensual world. The crucial terms of his ethics are activity, pleasure, eudaimonia (bliss) and the golden mean. Aristotle distinguishes two classes of virtues; consuetudinary moral virtues, e.g. courage, justice, moderation and generosity, and learnable intellectual virtues, i.e. art, knowledge, reasonableness, wisdom and understanding. The third part of the word deals with comparison of ancient,...
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Comprehension of family in classical Greek philosophy and by Augustine
Hasch, Martin ; Blažková, Miloslava (advisor) ; Rybák, David (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis Comprehension of Family in Classical Greek Philosophy and by Augustine is to describe and compare the concept of the family in the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Augustine. This work explains basic principles, wiewpoints and conclusions, which these philosophers got to. The basic writings of these three philosophers Plato's The Republic and The Laws, Aristotle's The Politics and Augustine's treatise on The Good of Marriage, where this subject is contained, are the main source of this work. In the Plato's teaching, which the first part of this work covers, dominates the idea of the extended family of the guardian class in creating an ideal community. Plato moderates this radical solution in his last work The Laws, where he pays more attention to the traditional family. The next part deals with Aristotle's teaching, which is based primarily on experience and analyses the existing family in the Greek polises, criticizes Plato's idea of communism of women and children. The third part deals with the new concept represented by the rising of christianity in the teaching of Augustine, who promotes moderation in the married life. The conclusion of this thesis compares the different concepts of the role of the family in the philosophical works of these three authors.
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Evil as privatio boni in the works of Aurelius Augustinus and Carl Gustav Jung
Malý, Jakub ; Halama, Jindřich (advisor) ; Fischer, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis deals with the question of evil as privatio boni according to the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and the conception of evil in the work of Carl Gustav Jung who denied this Augustine's teachings. In the thesis I analyze attitudes that adopt both thinkers to categories of good and evil in relation to impacts of their conceptions on understanding of God, self-understanding of man, of his life, death and salvation, further of the relation of God and man and the human moral responsibility before God and society. Augustine maintains that evil is an absence of good, but Jung thinks that the reality is put together from the balance of good and evil. Their attitudes I scarify with the aid of the secondary literature and the explanation of that biblical places that both thinkers refer to.
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Differences in Plato's, Aristotele's and Aurelius Augustinus' Understanding to Virtue
Kavanová, Blanka ; Blažková, Miloslava (advisor) ; Hauser, Michael (referee)
Bachelor's Thesis: Difference in Plato's, Aristotle's and Aurelius Augustinus' Understanding to Virtue Name: Blanka Kavanová Faculty: Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy Year: 2011 ABSTRACT The bachelor's thesis is concerned with the development and differences in Plato's, Aristotle's and Aurelius Augustinus' concept of virtue. The first part is focused on Plato's concept of four basic virtues, i.e. moderation/reasonableness, justice, courage and wisdom. In connection with these virtues, also his concepts of the good, soul, soul care and the duality of the worlds are outlined. From Plato's viewpoint, the virtue is seen as areté, i.e. excellence or the unity of soul goodness. In the second part of the work, the concept of Plato is compared with ideas of his disciple, friend and critic Aristotle. His concept of virtue is based on human experience in the sensual world. The crucial terms of his ethics are activity, pleasure, eudaimonia (bliss) and the golden mean. Aristotle distinguishes two classes of virtues; consuetudinary moral virtues, e.g. courage, justice, moderation and generosity, and learnable intellectual virtues, i.e. art, knowledge, reasonableness, wisdom and understanding. The third part of the word deals with comparison of ancient,...
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