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    Pantheism and panpsychism in the Renaissance and the emergence of secularism
    with Elisabeth Blum, Paul Richard Blum, and Martin Žemla
    Intellectual History Review 34 (1): 1-3. 2024.
    Pantheism, Panpsychism, and secularism? To any historian of ideas still under the die-hard spell of the Enlightenment narrative, this would appear as an unlikely connection.1 If ever the theory of...
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    Metaphysica Valeriani Magni
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 93 (2): 361-383. 2019.
    The paper deals with the metaphysics of Valerian Magni, a seventeenth-century Capuchin thinker and Church politician. It follows Stanislav Sousedik’s and Paul Richard Blum’s interpretations of Magni’s thought and aims to systematize Magni’s metaphysical notions and present their gradual development. The paper first focuses on Magni’s critique of Aristotelianism, which the Capuchin regards as an atheistic philosophy due to incorrect conceptions of God and the world. Then, Magni’s attempt to creat…Read more
  • Pojetí člověka v dějinách a současnosti filozofie II: Od Kanta po současnost (edited book)
    with Václav Němec and Monika Recinová
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    Článek se zabývá pojmem panteismus v období renesance. Ačkoli termín panteismus se objevil až na konci 17. století a později v kontextu tzv. “Pantheismusstreit”, za předchůdce moderního panteistického myšlení byl označen renesanční filosof Giordano Bruno. Následně i Mikuláš Kusánský, a to jakožto pokračovatel myšlení Mistra Eckharta, začal být považován za panteistu. Jak Kusánský, tak Bruno v určitém smyslu obhajovali imanenci božského ve světě, avšak zároveň oba zdůrazňovali rozdíl mezi Bohem a…Read more
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    Johannes Jessenius became known by his contemporaries mostly as an exponent of the Italian anatomical Renaissance in Central Europe at the end of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The image of Jessenius in the twentieth century was also created with respect to his activities in the area of anatomy in Wittenberg and Prague in particular. The aim of this article is to put Jessenius into the context of the development of anatomy in the sixteenth century. An important po…Read more
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    Petrarch’s Ascent of Mont Ventoux and Philosophy
    Archiwum Historii Filozofii I Myśli Społecznej 64 81-94. 2019.
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    The subject of the article is the interpretation of a series of experiments proving the existence of vacuum. This was performed by the Capuchin Valerian Magni in 1647 and described in the treatise Demonstratio ocularis, which is the first printed text referring to successful experiments with vacuum. The work generated great controversy at the time, not only with opponents of void, but also with French scholars, who accused Magni of plagiarism. The article reconstructs both the situation around t…Read more
  • Scholars dealing with Jessenius’ attitude towards Patrizi’s thoughts differ radically in their assessment of Jessenius’ intentions: Jessenius’ approach has been considered to be badly done plagiarism, a purely opportunistic act, an honest but not long-lasting fascination with Patrizi’s Platonism, or a correct understanding of Patrizi’s grasp of his own philosophy. The reason for the dissimilarities could be said to be the interpretation of the form of Jessenius’ reception of Francesco Patrizi’s …Read more
  • Valerian Magni o vakuu
    Dějiny Vědy a Techniky 48 (3): 135-150. 2015.
    In July 1647 Valeriano Magni published in Warsaw a description of his experiment proving the existence of vacuum. His treatise called “Demonstratio ocularis, loci sine locato, corporis successive moti in vacuo, luminis nulli corpori inhaerentis” provoked a huge polemic, not only with the opponents of the void but also concerning the authorship of the experiment. The article deals with the circumstances of Magni’s experiment and the polemics with both scholars attacking Magni from the point of Ar…Read more
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    Johannes Jessenius and Daniel Sennert on Sympathy
    Prilozi Za Istrazivanje Hrvatske Filozofske Baštine 2 (82): 389-400. 2015.
    Johannes Jessenius published the treatise on Causes of Sympathy and Antipathy in 1599 which was defended by his student and disciple Daniel Sennert. This disquisition provides interesting material with respect to the concept of natural philosophy and its development in both Jessenius and Sennert. Although Jessenius proclaims that he deals with the question of sympathy and antipathy generally in the Aristotelian manner, he simultaneously indicates the inspiration and main source of his disquisiti…Read more
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    Jessenius a Jessen, Johannes
    Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. 2015.
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    This paper deals with the differences between the concept of the agent intellect in Thomas Aquinas and in the early Franciscan school with a focus on St. Bonaventure. While according to Aquinas the agent intellect is the faculty of the human soul, in the thought of Alexander of Hales, John of La Rochelle and St. Bonaventure it has a double or even a triple meaning. In the Franciscan Masters the agent intellect is simultaneously considered as a faculty of the human soul but also as God himself an…Read more
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    Andreas Osiander v dějinách filosofie, vědy a filosofii vědy
    Teorie Vědy / Theory of Science 38 (4): 405-424. 2016.
    The article deals with the position of Lutheran theologian Andreas Osiander sen. in the history of philosophy, history of science and philosophy of science. It works on humanistic foundation of Osiander’s thought and his elaboration of the tradition of the antient wisdom and Christian cabbala of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola in particular in the biblical exegesis. The article deals with Osiander’s edition of Nicolaus Copernicus’ book De revolutionibus orbium caelestium as well and with his editi…Read more
  • Jednota intelektu v renesanční filosofii
    Aither, Journal for the Study of Greek and Latin Philosophical Tradition 7 (14): 140-161. 2015.
  • Jistota lidského poznání podle sv. Bonaventury
    Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis, Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica 4 127-135. 2000.
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    Osiander, Andreas
    In Marco Sgarbi (ed.), , Springer Verlag. pp. 1-4. 2017.
  • The Relationship between Johannes Jessenius and Johannes Kepler
    In Alena Hadravová, Terrence J. Mahoney & Petr Hadrava (eds.), , National Technical Museum. pp. 136-142. 2010.
  • Magni, Valerian
    In Marco Sgarbi (ed.), , Springer Verlag. 2015.
  • Význam Jesseniova filosofického díla wittenberského období ve vztahu k saskému kurfiřtovi
    In Agáta Klimeková & Eva Augustínová (eds.), , Slovenská Národná Knižnica. pp. 32-41. 2012.
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    Justification of Anatomical Practice in Jessenius’s Prague Anatomy
    Early Science and Medicine 21 (6): 557-574. 2016.
    The physician and philosopher Johannes Jessenius, an enthusiastic anatomist in Wittenberg, often had to defend his anatomical practices against Lutheran orthodoxy, as is apparent from the invitations he wrote concerning his dissections. His most systematic defence can be found in the introduction to his description of the dissection performed in Prague in 1600, where he provides three different strategies for the justification of anatomical research. The first method traditionally builds on the …Read more
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    Pojetí činného intelektu ve starší františkánské škole
    Filosoficky Casopis 53 (3): 383-400. 2005.
    [The conception of the intellect in the older Franciscan school]
  • Book Review (review)
    Acta Comeniana 19 243-248. 2005.
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    K jubileu P. Prof. Vladimíra Richtera SJ
    Studia Neoaristotelica 2 (2): 266-267. 2005.
  • Svatý Bonaventura: Putování mysli do Boha
    Filosoficky Casopis 47 148-151. 1999.
    [St. Bonaventura: The Mind’s Search for God.]