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Kinesiological Bases of Ancient and Present Rehabilitation Medical Practices
Gál, Ota ; Muchová, Renáta (advisor) ; Pfeiffer, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with kinesiological conceptions of Galen of Pergamum and present day science, which it examines from the pespective of philosophical hermeneutics. The research question of the thesis is following: Is there a conception of man and movement in the writings of ancient doctors especially of Galen which can enrich present scientific positions? And the hypothesis is that ancient kinesiology is able to inspire present rehabilitation medical practices and ordinary clinical praxis supports this. Chapters 2.1 to 2.3 sketch out Galen's physical basis, where he follows Aristotele, his psychology, massively influenced by Plato, and therapeutics that belongs to hippocratian tradition. The outcome of these chapters is the teleological character of motion, it's therapeutical as well as originary link to soul and holistic conception of man. Chapters 3.1 to 3.3 analyze corelatively the kinesiological basis of present day science. It is based on biomechanics, genetic conceptions and neurophysiology and understands health and disease through bio-psycho-social prism. Chapter 3.3 is coupled with a short overview of present day therapy with balls. Chapter 4 compares both conceptions searching for functional analogies of their structural elements and focuses on the problem of purpose, possibility of initiation...
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The role of beauty in Plato's philosophy
Gál, Ota ; Špinka, Štěpán (advisor) ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee)
The final thesis aims to develop the question of beauty in Plato. To do so, it tries to gain a proper interpretative access to Plato`s dialogues in the first chapter, and concludes that as they are principally unified on the basis of the likeness of the cave, they can be separated into three structurally different groups with distinct purposes - elenctic, anabatic and katabatic. The second chapter analyzes the dialogue Hippias Major, and traces the ontological implications of its negative outcome, as well as suggestions in relation to which other notions Plato tried to develop his conception. It then analyzes the dialogue Phaedo and tries to reconstruct the basics of Plato's theory of forms, beauty being one of them. The third chapter analyzes the question of beauty in the dialogues Symposium and Phaedrus in more detail, i.e in relation to love, good, happiness, begetting, soul and speech. Beauty is said to be shining both as form and in body, and eros can thus be mistaken in the source of its excitement. Most importantly the erotic movement of the soul is described as partner. It unifies the tripartite soul, different souls, including divine ones and, to a certain extent, even the soul and corrporeality. These analyses unravel in the fourth chapter beauty as, at the same time, cause and purpose of a...
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Beauty as Unity in Multiplicity in Plotinus
Gál, Ota ; Špinka, Štěpán (advisor) ; Chiaradonna, Riccardo (referee) ; Tornau, Christian (referee)
The thesis investigates Plotinus' concept of beauty. Chapter 1 focuses on two methodological issues: development in Plotinus' thought and topics of the concerned Enneads. Since Plotinus wrote two Enneads directly devoted to this topic which were numbered and named by Porphyry I.6 On beauty and V.8 On intellectual beauty, these two treatises are addressed first in the context of other relevant Enneads (chapters 2 and 3). The outcome of these chapters is that beauty is primarily to be found in Intellect and that it is closely linked with unity in multiplicity, so this topic is further investigated in more detail. Five mutually interconnected perspectives Plotinus assumes to describe the unity in multiplicity specific to the Intellect, are outlined. Two of them that are related to the nature of intellection and intelligible objects are discussed in chapters 2 and 3. The one related to Intellect's genesis is analysed throughout the thesis. Therefore, most of chapter 4 focuses on the remaining two perspectives which are connected with Intellect's hierarchical (Ennead VI.2) and structural (Ennead VI.6) unity in multiplicity. In chapter 5, Ennead VI.7 is analysed in order to deepen the concept of beauty and refine its relation to the Good, life and other predicates. The last chapter presents a systematic...
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Kinesiological Bases of Ancient and Present Rehabilitation Medical Practices
Gál, Ota ; Muchová, Renáta (advisor) ; Pfeiffer, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with kinesiological conceptions of Galen of Pergamum and present day science, which it examines from the pespective of philosophical hermeneutics. The research question of the thesis is following: Is there a conception of man and movement in the writings of ancient doctors especially of Galen which can enrich present scientific positions? And the hypothesis is that ancient kinesiology is able to inspire present rehabilitation medical practices and ordinary clinical praxis supports this. Chapters 2.1 to 2.3 sketch out Galen's physical basis, where he follows Aristotele, his psychology, massively influenced by Plato, and therapeutics that belongs to hippocratian tradition. The outcome of these chapters is the teleological character of motion, it's therapeutical as well as originary link to soul and holistic conception of man. Chapters 3.1 to 3.3 analyze corelatively the kinesiological basis of present day science. It is based on biomechanics, genetic conceptions and neurophysiology and understands health and disease through bio-psycho-social prism. Chapter 3.3 is coupled with a short overview of present day therapy with balls. Chapter 4 compares both conceptions searching for functional analogies of their structural elements and focuses on the problem of purpose, possibility of initiation...
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The role of beauty in Plato's philosophy
Gál, Ota ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee) ; Špinka, Štěpán (advisor)
The final thesis aims to develop the question of beauty in Plato. To do so, it tries to gain a proper interpretative access to Plato`s dialogues in the first chapter, and concludes that as they are principally unified on the basis of the likeness of the cave, they can be separated into three structurally different groups with distinct purposes - elenctic, anabatic and katabatic. The second chapter analyzes the dialogue Hippias Major, and traces the ontological implications of its negative outcome, as well as suggestions in relation to which other notions Plato tried to develop his conception. It then analyzes the dialogue Phaedo and tries to reconstruct the basics of Plato's theory of forms, beauty being one of them. The third chapter analyzes the question of beauty in the dialogues Symposium and Phaedrus in more detail, i.e in relation to love, good, happiness, begetting, soul and speech. Beauty is said to be shining both as form and in body, and eros can thus be mistaken in the source of its excitement. Most importantly the erotic movement of the soul is described as partner. It unifies the tripartite soul, different souls, including divine ones and, to a certain extent, even the soul and corrporeality. These analyses unravel in the fourth chapter beauty as, at the same time, cause and purpose of a...
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