Karel Thein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karel Thein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karel |
| FAMILY NAME | Thein |
| SIGNATURE | THEIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0931-3102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plato on Female “Weakness”: From Biology to Politics
In response to ongoing debates about Plato’s view of women, this paper focuses on the source of ambiguities that lead different readers to opposite conclusions. Dealing with the Republic and several passages from the Critias and the Laws, it emphasizes that all the passages that imply some sort of women’s inferiority assume one and only reason, namely that women are weaker than men. I argue that, pace other interpretations, this claim repeatedly …
Swifts and Hirundines in Aristotle's Historia Animalivm
Aristotle's brief accounts of some swifts and hirundines in Hist. an. 1.1 (487b24–31) and 9.30 (618a31–b2) list several species whose identification has always been taken for difficult, and continues to vary from translation to translation. This note clarifies this small issue on the basis of Aristotle's text alone. I therefore assume that both passages, each introduced by a slightly different use of the term ἄποδες, offer sufficient information …
Cities of the Warriors, Cities of the Sages
Ancient discourses on utopia range from nostalgic evocations of a peaceful Golden Age to the forward-looking projects of a well-ordered society free of internal violence. It is this second perspective that connects to the issue of how to maintain the fragile equilibrium between war and civil war. The idea of using the former as a remedy against the latter is present in the blueprint of the just city whose hypothetical generation is depicted in Pl…
Imagination, Self‐Awareness, and Modal Thought at Philebus 39–40
This chapter revisits Plato's image of our soul as a book where two craftsmen are at work, a scribe and a painter (Philebus 39–40). Its focus is on how the painter's elaborations pertain to some important formal features of our belief‐formation. A special emphasis is on the relevance of Plato's image as both a commentary upon and an instance of the discursive thought understood as the soul's inner dialogue. In the Philebus, Socrates' comments are…
L’âme, l’homme et la connaissance de soi dans le Premier Alcibiade
Dossier: S'habiller, se déshabiller dans les mondes anciens
Dossier : L’individu, objet de tous les regards : telle est la perspective adoptée par ce dossier. Si le vêtement occupe une place centrale dans cette enquête, l’histoire des apparences ne s’y réduit pas. Traits physiques et de caractère, tenue extérieure et nudité étudiée, parures et coiffures, odeurs et attitudes, constituent un large ensemble de significations, celui du « vêtement total ». Moyens de catégorisation et d’évaluation morale, modes…
Gods and Painters: Philostratus the Elder, Stoic Phantasia and the Strategy of Describing
I shall comment upon the way the elder Philostratus, author of Imagines , inscribes both the art of painting and his own interpretation of 65 particular paintings within a larger framework, which is composed of nature on the one hand, and the human perception of nature on the other. To get to this framework in a slightly oblique way, I will start with a brief reminder of Philostratus' often neglected classification of the arts. In his Life of Apo…
Cities of the Warriors, Cities of the Sages
Ancient discourses on utopia range from nostalgic evocations of a peaceful Golden Age to the forward-looking projects of a well-ordered society free of internal violence. It is this second perspective that connects to the issue of how to maintain the fragile equilibrium between war and civil war. The idea of using the former as a remedy against the latter is present in the blueprint of the just city whose hypothetical generation is depicted in Pl…
Gods and Painters: Philostratus the Elder, Stoic Phantasia and the Strategy of Describing
I shall comment upon the way the elder Philostratus, author of Imagines , inscribes both the art of painting and his own interpretation of 65 particular paintings within a larger framework, which is composed of nature on the one hand, and the human perception of nature on the other. To get to this framework in a slightly oblique way, I will start with a brief reminder of Philostratus' often neglected classification of the arts. In his Life of Apo…
Gods and Painters: Philostratus the Elder, Stoic Phantasia and the Strategy of Describing
I shall comment upon the way the elder Philostratus, author of Imagines , inscribes both the art of painting and his own interpretation of 65 particular paintings within a larger framework, which is composed of nature on the one hand, and the human perception of nature on the other. To get to this framework in a slightly oblique way, I will start with a brief reminder of Philostratus' often neglected classification of the arts. In his Life of Apo…
Dossier: S'habiller, se déshabiller dans les mondes anciens
Dossier : L’individu, objet de tous les regards : telle est la perspective adoptée par ce dossier. Si le vêtement occupe une place centrale dans cette enquête, l’histoire des apparences ne s’y réduit pas. Traits physiques et de caractère, tenue extérieure et nudité étudiée, parures et coiffures, odeurs et attitudes, constituent un large ensemble de significations, celui du « vêtement total ». Moyens de catégorisation et d’évaluation morale, modes…
L’âme, l’homme et la connaissance de soi dans le Premier Alcibiade
Imagination, Self‐Awareness, and Modal Thought at Philebus 39–40
This chapter revisits Plato's image of our soul as a book where two craftsmen are at work, a scribe and a painter (Philebus 39–40). Its focus is on how the painter's elaborations pertain to some important formal features of our belief‐formation. A special emphasis is on the relevance of Plato's image as both a commentary upon and an instance of the discursive thought understood as the soul's inner dialogue. In the Philebus, Socrates' comments are…
Cities of the Warriors, Cities of the Sages
Ancient discourses on utopia range from nostalgic evocations of a peaceful Golden Age to the forward-looking projects of a well-ordered society free of internal violence. It is this second perspective that connects to the issue of how to maintain the fragile equilibrium between war and civil war. The idea of using the former as a remedy against the latter is present in the blueprint of the just city whose hypothetical generation is depicted in Pl…
Swifts and Hirundines in Aristotle's Historia Animalivm
Aristotle's brief accounts of some swifts and hirundines in Hist. an. 1.1 (487b24–31) and 9.30 (618a31–b2) list several species whose identification has always been taken for difficult, and continues to vary from translation to translation. This note clarifies this small issue on the basis of Aristotle's text alone. I therefore assume that both passages, each introduced by a slightly different use of the term ἄποδες, offer sufficient information …
Plato on Female “Weakness”: From Biology to Politics
In response to ongoing debates about Plato’s view of women, this paper focuses on the source of ambiguities that lead different readers to opposite conclusions. Dealing with the Republic and several passages from the Critias and the Laws, it emphasizes that all the passages that imply some sort of women’s inferiority assume one and only reason, namely that women are weaker than men. I argue that, pace other interpretations, this claim repeatedly …
Philosophy (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient Near East History (2 works) · Art (2 works)