- Type of paper
: Book
Title: The Genesis of Bošković's Philosophy of Space and Time
- Authors:
- Čuljak, Zvonimir
Publisher: Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo
ISBN: 953-164-001-7
Year: 1992
Number of pages: 240
Number of references: 81
Language: hrvatski
Summary: Bošković has developed his own theory of space and time
between 1746 and 1755. His theory is determined by his philosophy
of science, which I interpreted as a kind of conventionalism.These
methodological foundations we find in his earlier works(1741-1745). Another
determinant element can be found ih theearliest formulation of his theory
of forces, developed in thetreatise De viribus vivis (1745). In that
treatise Boškovićpresents some important aspects of his understanding of
space andtime: the space is the extension of the force, the force is
anextensional and atemporal entity. That 'primacy' of space will bemuch
more emphasized in the following treatises.
In the treatises De cometis (1746) and De maris aestu (1747),
taking his law of forces as the starting-point, Bošković bringshis own
world picture, based on the model of two spaces, theinfinite immovable and
the finite movable space. The mainfeatures of that model are the hypothesis
of the immovable Earth,the postulate of the relative inertial force and the
finitnessand the mobility of the outer space. Although these
featuresessentially differ form Newton's views, they are meant byBošković
to preserve the laws of Newtonian mechanics. Themethodological consequences
of the Bošković's concept of spaceare: 1) the relativity of the knowledge
which is based onobservational data and experiments, 2) the possibility of
anon-Euclidean geometry.
In Bošković's model of microcosmic space, presented in the
treatise De materiae divisibilitate et principiis corporum(1748), the main
features are, on the one hand, the analogy ofspace and time and, on the
other hand, the geometricalinterpretation of the microcosmical space by
means of elementarytriangles and pyramids, and of the mathematical points
as theplaces of the matter-points. According to that Bošković considersthe
topic of space and time in the context of metaphysicalquaestio and of
geometrical presentation.
In the Supplementa (1755) Bošković gives the final form ofhis theory of
space and time which could be interpreted asrelational. Bošković gives a
definition of space and time as realor imaginary modes of existence.
Imaginary modes are continuous,infinite and infinitely divisible. They are
the possibility ofthe real modes, which are finite, indivisibile and
inextensive.In the methodological part Bošković emphasizes the knowledge
ofrelative motion as the only one possible knowledge of motion andthe
impossibility of the congruence of spatial and temporalintervals.
Keywords: conventionalism, law of forces, absolute, relative, finite movable space, infinite immovable space, capacitas, analogy between space and time, modi existendi
- Type of paper
: Book
Title: Ruđer Bošković (1711-1787)
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
- Editors
- Kratofil, Mirko
Publisher: Croatian PEN Centre
Year: 1993
Number of pages: 27
Number of references: 122
Language: engleski
Summary: The catalogue of exhibition includes the following
sections: 1.Atmosphere of prayer and poetry in the family home; 2.
Documentsand diplomatic correspondence; 3. Expert opinion on cracks on
thedome of the basilica of St. Peter (1742-1743); 4. Genesis of thetheory
of forces (1745-1758); 5. Archaeological findings(1742-1761); 6.
Rome-Rimini research trip (1750-1752); 7.Instruments; 8. Hydrotechnical
expertises; 9. Mathematicalachievements; 10. Literary work; 11. A variety
of interests; 12.Bošković and his contemporaries in works of art; 13.
Curiosa. Italso contains a chronology "Ruđer Bošković - The Life and Work".
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, literary work in the family Bošković, statics, theory of forces, natural philosophy, archaeology, geodesy, optical instruments, astronomical instruments, hydrotechnics, geometry, calculus, didactic poem, epigrams, travel, European monarchs, Leonhard Euler, Copernicus, Markantun de Dominis
- Type of paper
: Book
Title: Jesuits and Croatian Culture
- Authors:
- Korade, Mijo (176994)
- Aleksić, Mira
- Matoš, Jerko
Publisher: Croatian Writers' Association in cooperation with the Croatian P.E.N. Centre
Year: 1992
Number of pages: 304
Number of references: 57
Language: hrvatski
Summary: Book contains a succinct review of the cultural heritage
ofCroatian Jesuits. It describes work of Jesuits in Croatia andamong
Croats, and work of Croatian Jesuits, scholars andmissionaries, in other
countries. The first part of book exposesthe genesis and development of
Jesuit Colleges in Croatia, including the Collegium Ragusinum, and the
second part containsthe portraits of famous Croatian Jesuits, including
RuđerBošković, his contemporaries Josip Zanchi and Ferdinand Konšćak,and
his students Rajmund Kunić and Bernard Zamagna.
Keywords: Croatian Jesuits, Collegium Ragusinum, Ruđer Bošković, Josip Zanchi, Ferdinand Konšćak, Rajmund Kunić, Bernard Zamagna
- Type of paper
: Book
Title: Jesuits and Croatian Culture
- Authors:
- Korade, Mijo (176994)
- Aleksić, Mira
- Matoš, Jerko
- Editors
- Horvat, Vladimir
Publisher: Hrvatski povijesni institut
Year: 1993
Number of pages: 302
Language: hrvatski
Summary: See summary of the book "Jesuits and Croatian Culture"
Keywords: Croatian Jesuits, Collegium Ragusinum, Ruđer Bošković, Josip Zanchi, Ferdinand Konšćak, Rajmund Kunić, Bernard Zamagna
- Type of paper
: Book
Title: A step toward meaning: Anthrolological and ethical studies
and essays
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Publisher: Filozofsko-teološki institut Družbe Isusove
Year: 1992
Number of pages: 256
Number of references: 380
Language: hrvatski
Summary: This book discusses the following topics: (1) Fear - the
basiccharacteristic of present time; (2) The actuality of the conceptof
peace in St. Augustin; (3) Pacifism and the bellum-iustumtheory; (4) The
ecological crisis as a challenge for practicalphilosophy; (5) AIDS as a
dangerous game between Eros andTanatos; (6) Ethics of journalism; (7)
Heidegger's understandingof present time and critics of eternity; (8)
Humanism in thephilosophy of Romano Guardini; (9) Death as an experienc of
hope;(10) Question on meaning; (11) Philosophy on a prayer.
Keywords: fear, peace, pacifism, "bellum iustum" theory, ekology, AIDS, time, eternity, humanism, death, prayer, Heidegger, Augustin, Guardini, Plato, Kant, Nitzsche
- Type of paper
: Book
Title: Croatian Jesuits missionaries
- Authors:
- Korade, Mijo (176994)
Publisher: Hrvatska pokrajina Družbe Isusove
Year: 1991
Number of pages: 163
Number of references: 44
Language: hrvatski
Summary: This book contains: (1) portraits of Croatian
Jesuits,missionaries and explorers from 16th to 19th century; (2)portraits
of Croatian Jesuits missionaries in Croatia; (3)selected documents and
testimonies of Croatian Jesuits.
- Type of paper
: Book
Title: Matija Vlačić Ilirik, Paralipomena dialectices
- Authors:
- Vlačić Ilirik, Matija
- Editors
- Grgić, Filip
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
Publisher: Školska knjiga
ISBN: 953-0-61327-X
Year: 1994
Number of pages: 349
Number of references: 265
Language: hrvatski
Summary: This edition includes:
(1) "Introduction" on sources and problems of Vlačić's logic, on pp.
IX-XXXII;
(2) critical edition of Latin original and the first translation into
Croatian of Vlačić's "Paralipomena dialectices", on pp. 1-248;
(3) "Commentary" on pp. 249-333;
(4) indices on pp. 335-348.˙
Keywords: logic, philosophy of science, Aristotle, Epicurus, Euclid, Galenus, cause, proposition
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: Investigations of Croatian Jesuits in philosophy and
natural sciences from Markantun de Dominis to Josip Franjo Domin
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
- Editors
- Korade, Mijo (176994)
- Cvitanović, Đurđica
Publisher: Muzejsko-galerijski centar
Year: 1992
Pages: from 77 to 86
Number of references: 44
Language: hrvatski
Summary: This study researches investigations of Croatian Jesuits in
thefield of philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences from theend of
16th century till the beginning of 19thn century. Amongnew results should
be poinbted out: (1) philosophical andscientific terminology in Kašić's
Croato-Italian dictionary; (2)"ludicra mathematica" of Ignjat Đurđević; (3)
participation ofCroatian Jesuits in the scientific expeditions in the
period1746-1755 (Konšćak, Bošković, Szentmartony, Haller); (4)Bošković's
epigram on the heliocentric system; (5) reception ofBošković's philosophy
in works of Antun Radić and Stjepan Bašić.
Keywords: Markantun de Dominis, Ivan Vreman, Bartol Kašić, founding the colleges in Croatia, Ivan Ratkay, Stjepan Glavač, Ignjat Đurđević, Ferdinand Konšćak, Franjo Haller, Ignacije Szentmartony, Ruđer Bošković, Antun Radić, Stjepan Bašić
Other: Katalog izložbe "Isusovačka baština u Hrvata" opdržane
uMuzejskom prostoru od prosinca 1992. do travnja 1994.
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: The chronology of researches by Croatian Jesuits in
philosophy and natural sciences
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
- Editors
- Cvitanović, Đurđica
- Korade, Mijo (176994)
Publisher: Muzejsko-galerijski centar
Year: 1992
Pages: from 87 to 97
Number of references: 45
Language: hrvatski
Summary: This chronology contains the essential data on life and
work ofCroatian Jesuits (philosophers, mathematicians and
naturalscientists) divided into four periods: (1) 16th century; (2)
17thcentury; (3) 18th century till the Suppression of the Society ofJesus
in 1773; (4) from 1773 till the death of the last scholarfrom the
"suppressed" generation.
Keywords: 1560-1599, 1600-1699, 1700-1773, 1773-1826, Franjo Jambrehović, Ivan Prus, Josip Zanchi, Ivan Luka Zuzorić, Mihael Lipšić, Franjo Orlando,Augustin Michelazzi, Ludwig Mitterpacher, Josip Mitterpacher, Josip Marinović, Franjo Bruna, Josip Franjo Domin
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: Bošković's work in philosophy, natural sciences,
literature and geodesy: A contribution to his biography
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
- Editors
- Cvitanović, Đurđica
- Korade, Mijo (176994)
Publisher: Muzejsko-galerijski centar
Year: 1992
Pages: from 274 to 289
Number of references: 121
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The catalogue of exhibition section with the
followingsubdivision:
1. Atmosphere of prayer and poetry in the family home;
2. Documents and diplomatic correspondence;
3. Expert opinion on cracks on the dome of the basilica of St. Peter
(1742-1743);
4. Genesis of the theory of forces (1745-1758);
5. Archaeological findings;
6. Rome-Rimini research trip (1750-1752);
7. Instruments;
8. Hydrotechnical expertises;
9. Mathematical results;
10. Literary work;
11. A variety of interests;
12. Bošković and his contemporaries in works of art.
Keywords: literary work in the family Bošković, statics, theory of forces, archaeology, geodesy, optical instruments, astronomical instruments, hydrotechnics, geometry, calculus, didactic poem, epigrams, travel, European monarchs, Leonhard Euler, Copernicus, Markantun de Dominis
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: The ecological crisis - a challenge for practical
philosophy
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
- Editors
- Pozaić, Valentin
Publisher: Filozofsko-teološki institut Družbe Isusove
Year: 1991
Pages: from 53 to 66
Number of references: 29
Language: hrvatski
Summary: An awareness that the struggle against nature can
ultimately belost has become increasingly obvious with time. The
authorobserves that it would be wrong to simply jump off the banwagonof
contemporary technological advances. That would be irrationaland thus
irresponsible. Escapism during the present ecologicalcrisis is simply not
an appropriate solution. However, the authordoes not advocate the solutions
of K. R. Popper whoconceptualized possibilities for the solution of the
ecologicalcrisis attempted through the so-called
"Stueckwerk-Technologie",criticizing all metaphisical and holistic appeals.
Keywords: practical philosophy, ecology, relation to the nature in modern times, integrative thinking, nature, good life, ecological ethics
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: Epilogue of the editor
- Authors:
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
- Editors
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
Publisher: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada
Year: 1992
Pages: from 437 to 479
Number of references: 146
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The editor discusses the structure and topics of 14
writingscontaining Aristotle's "Metaphysics". The epilogue is accompaniedby
abundant "A Selected Bibliography".
Keywords: wisdom, cause, truth, apory, ontology, principle, nature, mathematics, physics, theology, substance, God
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: Epilogue of the Editor
- Authors:
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
- Editors
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
Publisher: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada
Year: 1992
Pages: from 298 to 340
Number of references: 115
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The editor discusses the genesis, structuer and topics
ofAristotle's "Physics". The epilogue is accompanied by "ASelected
Bibliography".
Keywords: principles, natural science, cause, infinity, continuity, space, time, motion, the prime-mover
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: Epilogue of the Editor
- Authors:
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
- Editors
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
Publisher: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada
Year: 1992
Pages: from 354 to 387
Number of references: 156
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The editor discusses the genesis, structure and topics of
fivedifferent writings in Aristotle's "Politics". The epilogue
isaccompanied by an abundant "A Selected Bibliography".
Keywords: teleology, state, man, theory of state, democracy, tyrrany, government, constitution, education
- Type of paper
: Paper in book
Title: Religious, Educational and Literary Work of Croatian
Jesuits
- Authors:
- Korade, Mijo (176994)
- Editors
- Cvitanović, Đurđica
- Korade, Mijo (176994)
Publisher: Muzejsko-galerijski centar
Year: 1992
Pages: from 16 to 37
Number of references: 26
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The article researches the following topics: (1) Beginnings
inthe 16th century; (2) EDucation and Colleges; (3) Ipastoral andmissionary
work; (4) Grammarians and Lexicographers; (5) CroatianLiterature; (6)
Ascetical and theological works; (7) TheHumanities: history, geography,
law, economy; (8) The storms andthe results in thre 19th and 20th
centuries.
Keywords: Ignatius of Loyola, Dubrovnik, college, missions, Bartol Kašić, Jakov Mikalja, Ardelio della Bella, Benedikt Rogačić, Ivan Marija Matijašević
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Bošković's Unobservables
- Authors:
- Čuljak, Zvonimir
Journal: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Number: 3
ISSN: 0269-8595
Volume: 7
Year: 1993
Pages: from 211 to 224
Number of references: 21
Language: engleski
Summary: Bošković treated unobservables in two different ways.
During his
earlier period (1741-48) the difference between observables and
unobservables was a significant element of his specific semantic
instrumentalism. The sentences of unobservables (such as absolute
space, time and motions) were treated only as convenient tools
conceived to provide for the empirical success of a theory.Later,
especially in his Theory of Natural Philosophy (1763),Bošković relativized
this distinction by positing absoluteproperties (continuity and
impenetrability), which are common toboth observables and unobservables. As
a scientific realist hewas committed to his original unobservable
entitities, i.e.'points of matter'. Due to the intrinsic paradox contained
in theconcept of these points, his realist position was lead to theabsurd,
which demands an anti-realist interpretation ofBošković's theory.
Keywords: unobservable, observable, semantic instrumentalism, scientific realism, absolute, 'points of matter', anti-realism
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: The Concept of Space in Bošković's Hypothesis of Forces
(De viribus vivis, 1745)
- Authors:
- Čuljak, Zvonimir
Journal: Synthesis Philosophica
Number: 16
ISSN: 0352-7875
Volume: 8
Year: 1993
Pages: from 293 to 307
Number of references: 12
Language: engleski
Summary: In the treatise On living forces (De viribus vivis)
Boškovićtried to execute two main tasks: to explain 'the generation
ofvelocity' and 'the primary properties of bodies'. The basicprinciple upon
which this task was based was Leibniz's principleof continuity (nihil in
natura per saltum fieri). Bošković'scriticism of the rival hypotheses (of
potencies, living forces,impulse or the continuous extension of matter)
showed that allof them entail an inadequate concept of space, especially
withrespect to the principle of continuity. Bošković solved bothproblems by
means of his (1) 'hypothesis of forces' and his (2)model of 'physical and
real points'. 'The generation of velocity'occurs instantenously in an
infinitely small and continuousspatial interval as an effect of the
determination which'physical points' posess for their motions. 'Primary
propertiesof bodies' are reduced on spatial dispositions of
'physicalpoints' situated on certain limits of attraction and
repulsion.Bošković's construction of an adequat concept of space is
foundedon the idea of the continuous 'extension of forces'.
Keywords: force, space, the generation of velocity, the primary properties of bodies, the principle of continuity, physical and real points, the extension of forces
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Averroes' Search
- Authors:
- Čuljak, Zvonimir
Journal: Gordogan
Number: 33
ISSN: 0351-1758
Volume: 11
Year: 1990
Pages: from 299 to 303
Number of references: 7
Language: hrvatski
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: The Monography on Ruđer Bošković by Ivan Supek
- Authors:
- Čuljak, Zvonimir
Journal: Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine
Number: 32
ISSN: 0350-2791
Volume: 16
Year: 1990
Pages: from 240 to 243
Number of references: 1
Language: hrvatski
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Hydrotechnical expertises of Ruđer Bošković
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Naše more
Number: 1
ISSN: 0469-6255
Volume: 40
Year: 1993
Pages: from 61 to 75
Number of references: 45
Language: hrvatski
Summary: Ruđer Bošković dealt with hydrotechnical expertises in the
longperiod 1751-1781. He was particularly successful during hismathematical
lectures at the University of Pavia and Milan.Damage report on the port of
Rimini and the scientific letter onthe principles of hydrodynamics,
included in Lecchi's book'Idrostatica', are the most fruitful of their kind
on hydraulicsand hydrodynamics. Moreover, they are methodologically
superiorto Bošković's other works in the field of hydrotechnics.
Whilemaking the expertise of port Rimini, Bošković combined themeasurements
and the observations of phenomena by examiningwritten sources of the port.
In the letter to Lecchi on theprinciples of hydrodynamics, Bošković
described exactly the roleof integration, approximation and interpolation
tecniques insolving hydrodynamical problems. Bošković requested on
theoccasion of his election to the chair of mathematics in Pavia(1764) in
the official documents, for lectures on hydraulics forsecond year
university studies. He also proposed that thenautical and hydraulic works
by Bouguer, Maupertuis and Belidorbe placed in the University Library.
The paper is accompanied by 'The catalogue of Bošković'smanuscripts and
published works on hydrotechnics andhydrodynamics' containing fully
ascertained bibliographical dataand the precise time of birth.
Keywords: catalogue of Bošković's hydrotechnical expertises in the period 1751-1781, teaching on hydraulics and navigation at the University of Pavia in 1764-1769, Bošković's harbour expertises, Fiumicino, Magnavacca, Terracina, Rimini, Savona, choice of mathematical method in exposing principles of hydrodynamics, Ruđer Bošković, Leonardo Ximenes, Antonio Lecchi, Francesco Puccinelli, the Pontine Marshes
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: The early reception of Bošković's natural philosophy: "The
Benvenuti affair"
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Filozofska istraživanja
Number: 47
ISSN: 0351-4706
Volume: 12
Year: 1992
Pages: from 957 to 981
Number of references: 48
Language: hrvatski
Summary: Carlo Benvenuti's work "Synopsis Physicae Generalis"
(1754), andparticularly its fourth chapter "De Corporum Principiis", is
thefirst work that exposed Bošković's theory of forces. According
toBošković's own evaluation, it furthered the application ofBošković's
theory to general physics on the basis of the study ofBošković's early
treatises from the period 1745-1748. Benvenuti's"Synopsis" should be
considered a component part of thedevelopment of Bošković's theory of
forces, crowned by Bošković'sfamous "Theoria philosophiae naturalis".
Bošković's treatise "Decontinuitatis lege" and Benvenuti's "Synopsis", both
published in1754, are complementary in content and represent the result of
anagreed and conceived distribution of tasks within the commonproject of
two scholars.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, Carlo Benvenuti, Luigi Centurione, Giulio Cesare Cordara, theory of forces, general physics, Bošković's law of forces, application of Bošković's theory to the general and special properties of physical bodies, fixed stars at the null-points of Bošković's curve of forces, 'model of atom' from 1748
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: The early reception of Bošković's natural philosophy: The
"Benvenuti Case"
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Synthesis Philosophica
Number: 16
ISSN: 0352-7875
Volume: 8
Year: 1993
Pages: from 309 to 335
Number of references: 82
Language: engleski
Summary: Carlo Benvenuti's work "Synopsis Physicae Generalis"
(1754), andparticularly its fourth chapter "De corporum principiis", is
thefirst work that exposed Bošković's theory of forces. According
toBošković's own evaluation, it furthered the application ofBošković's
early treatises from the period 1745-1748. Benvenuti's"Synopsis" should be
considered a component part of thedevelopment of Bošković's theory of
forces, crowned by Bošković'sfamous "Theoria philosophiae naturalis".
Bošković's treatise "Decontinuitatis lege" and Benvenuti's "Synopsis", both
published in 1754, are complementary in content and represent the result
ofan agreed and conceived distribution of tasks within the commonproject of
two scholars.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, Carlo Benvenuti, Luigi Centurione, Giulio Cesare Cordara, theory of forces, general physics, Bošković's law of forces, application of Bošković's theory to the general and special properties of physical bodies, fixed stars at the nullpoints of Bošković's curve of forces, "model of atom" from 1748
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Bošković's unrealized theory of infinitesimals: Between
framework of the theory and application of method
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Filozofska istraživanja
Number: 49
ISSN: 0351-4706
Volume: 13
Year: 1993
Pages: from 453 to 474
Number of references: 56
Language: hrvatski
Summary: In the Roman period Bošković intended to construct a theory
ofinfinitesimals and to expose it in the planned fourth volume ofhis
mathematical textbook. According to Bošković's basicconception, this theory
should be found on the concept ofcontinuity of geometric curve, and the
"draft" of its contentunderwent supplements during Bošković's
mathematicalinvestigations in the period 1741-1755. From the
epistemologicalpoint of view, Bošković's permanent discussion about
thesuitableness of geometric and infinitesimal method for solving
amathematical problem could cause that the framework of his theoryof
infinitesimals was never realized. However, Bošković solvedseveral
important mathematical problems with the help ofinfinitesimal method:
(1) determining of the solid of maximal attraction acting at apoint of axis
of this body (1743);
(2) determining of the mathematical form of the cells of bees(1760);
(3) rectification of Lorgna's cissoid solved by using ellipticintegrals
(1768);
(4) four general differential equations of sphericaltrigonometry.
Contrary to evaluations of Bošković's mathematical methodology byJ. F.
Scott (1961) and Ž. Marković (1970), it should not beneglected the
following component parts in mathematical work ofRuđer Bošković:
(1) the basic idea and the short content of his theory ofinfinitesimals,
exposed in many announcements of the fourthvolume of his mathematical
textbook "Elementa universaematheseos" (1741-1755);
(2) impulses from the applied investigations, e. g. from geodesyand
hydrodynamicxs, that included the use of infinitesimalmethod (1755, 1765);
(3) problems Bošković solved with the help of infinitesimalmethod (1743,
1760, 1770);
(4) problems Bošković induced to evaluate "power" and "elegance"of
infinitesimal method (1765, 1768, 1770).
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, theory of infinitesimals, geometrical method, infinitesimal method, "power" of high analysis, "elegance" of geometry, methodical parallelism, geodesy, hydrodynamics, spherical trigonometry, the cell of bees
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Epigrams of Ruđer Bošković
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Dubrovnik
Number: 3
ISSN: 0353-8559
Volume: 4
Year: 1993
Pages: from 93 to 120
Number of references: 83
Language: hrvatski
Summary: This study describes the historical context and argues
thepoetic, philosophical and scientific values of Bošković'sepigrams
written on four different occasions: (1) in the Academiadegli Arcadi at
Rome; (2) in the villa of the ambassador GiacomoDurazzo (1772); (3) in the
villa of the Duke Xaver de Saxe(1777); (4) in the printing house Remondini
at Bassano (1784). Itshould be pointed out the importance of Bošković's
epigram on theheliocentric system published in 1756.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, epigram, distichon, Ratio Studiorum, Martialis, Joseph Jouvancy, Academia degli Arcadi, Giacomo Durazzo, Duke Xaver de Saxe, printing house Remondini, heliocentrism
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Epigrams
- Authors:
- Bošković, Ruđer Josip
Journal: Dubrovnik
Number: 3
ISSN: 0353-8559
Volume: 4
Year: 1993
Pages: from 79 to 92
Number of references: 45
Language: hrvatski
Summary: This collection of Bošković's epigrams contains four cycles
ofverses: (1) epigrams from the Academia degli Arcadi (1756); (2)jokes
during holidays in the villa of the ambassador GiacomoDurazzo (1772); (3)
gallant verses at the ceremonies in thevilla of the Duke Xaver of Saxe
(1777); (4) extemporaliain the printing house Remondini at Bassano (1784).
Selected,from Latin into Croatian translated and commented by
IvicaMartinović.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, Joao V, heliocentrism, telescope, Jupiter, Saturn, Russeau, Voltaire, ontology, ethics, astronomy, Chiara Rosa Spinucci, Giacomo Vittorelli
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Theories and inter-theory relations in Bošković; prijevod
naslova na hrvatski: Teorije i međuteorijski odnosi u Boškovića
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Number: 3
ISSN: 0269-8595
Volume: 4
Year: 1990
Pages: from 247 to 262
Number of references: 79
Language: engleski
Summary: During 1745-1755 Bošković explicitly used the concept
ofscientific theory in three cases: the theory of forces existingin nature,
the theory of transformations of geometric loci, andthe theory of
infinitesimals. The theory first mentioned becamethe famous theory of
natural philosophy in 1758, the second waspublished in the third volume of
his mathematical textbook"Elementa universae matheseos" (1754), and the
third theory wasnever completed, though Bošković repeatedly announced it
from1741 on. The treatment of continuity and infinity in naturalphilosophy,
geometry and infinitesimal analysis brought aboutinter-theory relations in
Bošković's work during his Romanperiod. The two constructed theories of
Bošković, the theory offorces and the theory of geometric transformations,
directlyinfluenced the idea for the construction of his third theory.These
written theories refer to understanding and effectiveapplication of
continuity and infinity in natural philosophy andgeometry, and this task,
according to Bošković, requiresmethodological support from the theory of
infinitesimals.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, theory of forces, theory of transformations of geometric loci, theory of infinitesimals, continuity, infinity, Newton's ideal in the investigation of nature
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Immanuel Kant. Metaphysical Principles of Natural Science
- Authors:
- Škarica, Dario (170172)
Journal: Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine
Number: 31
ISSN: 0350-2791
Volume: 16
Year: 1990
Pages: from 245 to 248
Language: hrvatski
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Damir Barbarić. The Philosophy of Andrija Dorotić
- Authors:
- Škarica, Dario (170172)
Journal: Filozofska istraživanja
Number: 35
ISSN: 0351-4706
Volume: 10
Year: 1990
Pages: from 571 to 573
Language: hrvatski
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Damir Barbarić. The Philosophy of Andrija Dorotić
- Authors:
- Škarica, Dario (170172)
Journal: Studia historiae philosophiae Croaticae
Number: 1
ISSN: 0353-9482
Volume: 1
Year: 1990
Pages: from 219 to 222
Language: engleski
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: A. S. Kovačić. Bibliography of Works of the Franciscans of
Bosnia Srebrena
- Authors:
- Škarica, Dario (170172)
Journal: Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine
Number: 37
ISSN: 0350-2791
Volume: 19
Year: 1993
Pages: from 317 to 320
Number of references: 11
Language: hrvatski
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Bošković on Knowledge
- Authors:
- Škarica, Dario (170172)
Journal: Synthesis Philosophica
Number: 16
ISSN: 0352-7875
Volume: 8
Year: 1993
Pages: from 257 to 269
Number of references: 57
Language: engleski
Summary: The first part of this article considers Bošković's
basicconcepts relating to the theory of knowledge: ideas, reflectionand the
light of reason. The second part refutes Nedeljković'snotion of the sense
of touch as the source of our knowledge ofthe external world, and offers a
demonstration of Bošković'srationalism.
Keywords: idea, reflection, 'lumen rationis', rationalism, theory of knowledge
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Notes on Contributors (I)
- Authors:
- Čuljak, Zvonimir
Journal: Synthesis philosophica
Number: 15
ISSN: 0352-7875
Volume: 8
Year: 1993
Pages: from 7 to 11
Language: engleski
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Notes on Contributors (II)
- Authors:
- Čuljak, Zvonimir
Journal: Synthesis philosophica
Number: 16
ISSN: 0352-7875
Volume: 8
Year: 1993
Pages: from 231 to 234
Language: engleski
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: The ontic order in descriptions of Herman the Dalmatian
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine
Number: 38
ISSN: 0350-2791
Volume: 19
Year: 1993
Pages: from 9 to 30
Number of references: 50
Language: hrvatski
Summary: In his manuscript "De essentiis" (1143) Herman the
Dalmatian(Hermannus Secundus), the first Croatian philosopher in the
firsthalf of the 12th century, introduced and expounded his
originalsequence of essences, which differs from the preceding
medievalcatalogues and classifications of essences in the
hermeneuticalcircle. In his ontological investigations, Herman confronted
withthe Platonic, Aristotelian and Hermetic doctrines on cause, inBoethius'
translations and commentaries of Aristotle's works inparticular, in
Boethius' "De arithmetica" and Abu Ma'shar's"Introductorium in
astronomiam", as valuable mediators of theClassical spiritual heritage
during his studies in France and hiswork as a translator in Spain. Thanks
to the ecclectic approach,or rather in spite of it, Herman reached original
resultsconcerning the thaught on cause in the first book of the treatise"De
essentiis".
Keywords: Herman the Dalmatian, hermeneutical circle, cause, the ontic order esse-essentia-genitura, Boethius, Aristotle's "Categories", ontic contaries, creator, Plato's Demiurge, Hermes Trismegistos, Abu Ma'shar, bipartition of the efficient cause by quality
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: The ecological crisis - a challenge to practical
philosophy
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Journal: Obnovljeni život
Number: 1
ISSN: 0351-3947
Volume: 46
Year: 1991
Pages: from 28 to 38
Number of references: 29
Language: hrvatski
Summary: An awareness that the struggle against nature can
ultimately belost has become increasingly obvious with time. The
authorobserves that it would be wrong to simply jump off the bandwagonof
contemporary technological advances. That would be irrationaland thus
irresponsible. Escapism during the present ecologicalcrisis is simply not
an appropriate solution. However, the authordoes not advocate the solutions
of K. R. Popper whoconceptualized possibilities for the solution of the
ecologiccrisis attempted through the so-called
"Stueckwerk-Technologie",criticizing all metaphisical and holistic appeals.
Keywords: practical philosophy, ecology, nature, ecological ethics, Popper
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Several conjectures on the theme of AIDS
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Journal: Obnovljeni život
Number: 2
ISSN: 0351-3947
Volume: 46
Year: 1991
Pages: from 198 to 206
Number of references: 21
Language: hrvatski
Summary: Through a series of philosophical conjectures, the
authoranalyses the cultural and scientific background of the deseaseAIDS,
noting that this desease has drawn fear into currentethical discourse but
also a cynical call to a revival ofchastity, morality and restraint.
According to the author, it isincorrect to reduce morality to the emotional
level and a merelyinstrumental function. A constructive approach when
confrontedwith the fact and danger of AIDS is glipmsed in theestablishment
of a normative ethic of chastity, responsabilityand solidarity. The author
proposes that a meaningfull answer befound to the question of what should
be done regarding AIDS. Themeaning of that which accompanies the solution
must be love.
Keywords: AIDS, love, marxism, psychoanalysis, crisis of culture, ideology, personalism
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Pacifism and theory of just war: Historical development
and meaning of the "brellum-iustum" theory
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Journal: Obnovljeni život
Number: 5
ISSN: 0351-3947
Volume: 46
Year: 1991
Pages: from 459 to 472
Number of references: 33
Language: hrvatski
Summary: Is it allowed, in the name of an ideologiccaly
conceivedpacifism, to be at all events against the war? Is there
apossibility of moral justification of "just" or, better said,"justified",
"defensive" war? In the shadow of these questions,the author endeavours to
give critical evaluation of so calledabsolute pacifism, reflecting
well-known sentences of"bellum-iustum"theory (Augustin, Thomas Aquinas,
Suarez, ...).Regarding the concret in Croatia at war, the author points
outthe political, humanistic, moral disability and failures ofso-called
"pacifist movements" determining them as mereideologizing.
Keywords: "bellum iustum" theory, Augustin, Thomas Aquinas, Suarez, Grotius, Council Vatican II, pacifist movements, international institutions
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Virtue of political wisdom
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Journal: Obnovljeni život
Number: 3
ISSN: 0351-3947
Volume: 47
Year: 1992
Pages: from 276 to 283
Number of references: 21
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The author considers the virtue of wisdom as the decisive
one forevery policy and political activity. Politically wisdom is shown:(1)
by being orientated towards good aims in political matters,not being
selfish and obstinate; (2) by trying to understand andmaster complex
relationships, but not putting things before man;(3) by being able to
resolve difficult situations, to discern andgovern them, but not as an
opportunist. The author shows thelimits of thus conceived wisdom which can
only be a humanquality. For christian politicians it is challenge to
questionthe meaning of the christian virtue of prudency as a kind
offortification, shelter and overcoming of a merely naturalcommon sense.
The christian politician, in his wisdom, retains aplace for the cardinal
christian virtues: faith, hope andcharity.
Keywords: virtue, policy, wisdom, memory, history, prediction
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Ignatius: a message for the present
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Journal: Obnovljeni život
Number: 2
ISSN: 0351-3947
Volume: 48
Year: 1993
Pages: from 181 to 190
Number of references: 6
Language: hrvatski
Summary: Present-day man has no ideals, he has lost his identity and
hispersonal ego, the true reason of his freedom. Ignatius has awealth of
things to announce and bring to such a man. Ignatiuswas, in the first
place, a realist: he considered reality to besomething individual,
personal, and objective. He was a man ofeffective love, "immeasurable but
precisely measured". Hisspirituality is an example of liberation of man for
that innerfreedom which essentially includes a healthy coolness and
acertain distance to creatures and things. The measure ofIgnatius' wisdom
is Christ' love, this new command which sets thenorm of man's behaviour,
the love of God towards man.
Keywords: ideals, identity, freedom, liberation, love
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Vlačić's "Paralipomena dialectices"
- Authors:
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
Journal: Filozofska istraživanja
Number: 43
ISSN: 0351-4706
Volume: 11
Year: 1991
Pages: from 829 to 843
Number of references: 66
Language: hrvatski
Summary: See summary of the article "Matthias Flacius Illyricus
andSixteenth-Century Logic".
Keywords: Matija Vlačić Ilirik, logic, inventio medii, scientific methods, Simon Grinaeus, nature of man
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Nikola Gučetić's Criticism of Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Authors:
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
Journal: Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine
Number: 35
ISSN: 0350-2791
Volume: 18
Year: 1992
Pages: from 75 to 92
Number of references: 47
Language: hrvatski
Keywords: Nikola Gučetić, Aristotle, Averroes, Alexander of Aphrodisias, forma harmonica, intellectus possibilis, intellectus agens
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Cicero's "Topics" in the Classical Logic and Rethoric
- Authors:
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
Journal: Filozofska istraživanja
Number: 47
ISSN: 0351-4706
Volume: 12
Year: 1992
Pages: from 895 to 907
Number of references: 53
Language: hrvatski
Keywords: Cicero, topic, logic, rhetoric, Antiochos, Martianus Capella
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Imperishability of Intellect in Aristotle and Thomas
Aquinas
- Authors:
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
Journal: Synthesis Philosophica
Number: 14
ISSN: 0352-7875
Volume: 7
Year: 1992
Pages: from 229 to 241
Number of references: 27
Language: njemački
Summary: In his account of the intellect Aristotle raises many
questions.To most of them he does not give clear answers. So the theory
ofthe intellect we find in his works is in its prevailing partaporetic. In
the analysis of "De anima" III, 5, the authordisplayed a set of problems
concerning the nature of theintellect and he argued that it is not possible
to find definitesolutions to many of them in Aristotle's works. However, in
hiscommentary to these passages and other works, Thomas Aquinasoffers very
clear answers to all of these questions. On the onehand, Thomas and
Aristotle share the view about theimperishability of the intellect, i.e.
the immortality of therational part of the soul. On the other hand, unlike
Aristotle,Thoams strictly distinguishes the imperishability of theintellect
from the immortality of the soul. Both of them are inthe wrong, for they
try to solve the problem of immortality byepistemological means. Yet, the
solution to this problem raisesthe question of personal identity which
rather belongs to thearea of the moral philosophy.
Keywords: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, imperishability of intellect, nature of intellect, intellectus possibilis, intellectus passivus, immortality of the soul, epistemology, moral philosophy
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Imperishability of Intellect in Aristotle and Thomas
Aquinas
- Authors:
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
Journal: Filozofska istraživanja
Number: 48
ISSN: 0351-4706
Volume: 13
Year: 1992
Pages: from 31 to 43
Number of references: 23
Language: hrvatski
Summary: See summary for the article "Die Unsterblichkeit der
Vernunft beiAristoteles und Thomas von Aquino". The paper is accompanied
bythe new translation of Aristotle's "De anima" III,5 in Croatian.
Keywords: Herman the Dalmatian, Averroes, Nikola Gučetić
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Matthias Flacius Illyricus and Sixteenth-Century Logic
- Authors:
- Talanga, Josip (168914)
- Grgić, Filip
Journal: Synthesis Philosophica
Number: 1
ISSN: 0352-7875
Volume: 8
Year: 1993
Pages: from 147 to 166
Number of references: 46
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The present paper is a description and discussion of
Flacius'streatise "Paralipomena dialectices", published anonymously inBasel
in 1558. The first part of paper offers some evidence ofFlacius's
authorship. The second part examines the authoritativesources on which
Flacius relied in developing his logic. Thethird part reviews the two main
problems raised in "Parlipomenadialectices": the problem of finding the
middle term and thedoctrine of method. The last part of the paper examines
Flacius'slogic in relation to his other preoccupations, particuularly
hishermeneutic-exegetic work. The conclusion is that
"Paralipomenadialectices" shows that in his hermeneutics Flacius relied
onlogic to a much greater extent than has so far been thought.
Keywords: Matthias Flacius Illyricus, logic, hermeneutics, Rudolf Agricola, Simon Grynaeus, Philipp Melanchthon, doctrine of method, pons asinorum
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Quantitas inassignabilis: Language and Knowledge in
Bošković's Approach to Infinitesimals
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Filozofska istraživanja
Number: 51
ISSN: 0351-4706
Volume: 14
Year: 1993
Pages: from 745 to 754
Number of references: 22
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The methodological approach of the young professor in 1740,
andthe gnoseological approach of the experienced professor in 1754,were
focused on the foundations of infinitesimal calculus.According to Bošković,
the meaning of the infinitesimal, both as"indefinitely small quantity" and
later as "assignable quantity",is an open problem in the mid 18th century.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, infinitesimal method, geometric method, Newton, Euclid, Leibniz, method of prime and ultimate ratios, method of fluxions, differential method, foundations of calculus, inassignable quantity, relativism of mathematical knowledge
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title:
- Authors:
- Škarica, Dario (170172)
Journal: Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine
Number: 39/4
ISSN: 0350-2791
Volume: 1-2
Year: 20
Pages: from 485 to 490
Number of references: 32
Language: hrvatski
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Some aspects of explanation in Bošković
- Authors:
- Čuljak, Zvonimir
Journal: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Number: 3
ISSN: 0269-8595
Volume: 9
Year: 1995
Pages: from 73 to 84
Number of references: 17
Language: engleski
Summary: Bošković's explanatory procedure and his concept of
explanation
represents a certain departure from Newton's causal theory and his theory
of explanation. Apart from particular elements of causal explanation,
Bošković developed an alternative, non-causal
explanatory strategy. In this paper two different elements of this strategy
are discussed: (1) the micro-reductive explanatory
strategy based on Bošković's idea of determination, and (2) a type of
explanation of a theory by means of a more general law, through a
thought-experiment. In addition, an outline of the proposed (3) 'argument
theory' of explanation in his mature period is made. These aspects are
considered with respect to the realist and anti-realist elements in
Bošković's epistemology.
Keywords: explanation, explanatory procedure, causal theory of explanation, determination, micro-reductive explanatory strategy, thought-experiment, 'argument theory' of explanation, realism, anti-realism
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Freedom for the good: Thomistic philosophy on freedom in
the context of linguistic-analytic reception
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Journal: Filozofska istraživanja
Number: 52
ISSN: 0351-4706
Volume: 14
Year: 1994
Pages: from 33 to 39
Number of references: 17
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The phenomenon from which linguistic-analytic discussions
on freedom begin is characterised by the said pageant statement "X could
have acted differently". Action. therefore, depends on the agent. The
question is only how should be interpreted. In this context the author
examines the Thomistic concept of freedom of will as the rational
aspiration or ability of man to be induced according to reasons to act (see
STh I II 6,2), and which A. J. P. Kenny introduced in analytical philosophy
and attempted to interpret in his book "Will, Freedom and Power".
Keywords: will, transcendental concept of freedom, Thomas Aquinas, Kant, A. J. P. Kenny
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Croatian natural philosophers of the 18th century
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Filozofska istraživanja
Number: 56
ISSN: 0351-4706
Volume: 15
Year: 1995
Pages: from 3 to 43
Number of references: 96
Language: hrvatski
Summary: During the 18th century natural philosophy was the subject
of numerous and valuable investigations conducted by Croatian philosophers.
The number and range of published works is most frequently confirmed by the
offered chronology of the published works of ten Croatian natural
philosophers from the period 1740-1799. With the exception of Benedikt
Stay, these philosophers were members of the Jesuit Order up to the time of
its supression in 1773 and lectured, if only for a short period, in second
year philosophy courses within the colleges of their Order. The dynamic
development of natural philosophy among Croatians during the 18th century
is most obvious in the reception of three different systems of natural
philosophy. Croatian philosophers first confronted Descartes' natural
philosophy, followed by Newton's natural philosophy and its mathematical
principles and, finally, beginning in 1748 up to the end of the century,
the new type of natural philosophy developed by Ruđer Bošković after 1745.
Keywords: Luka Bakranin, Mihovil Lipšić, Ruđer Bošković, Josip Zanchi, Kazimir Bedeković, Ivan Šimunić, Antun Radić, Franjo Ksaver Volković, Stjepan Bašić, Josip Franjo Domin
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Ruđer Bošković's function describing the surface area of
the cell of bees
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Ekonomska misao i praksa
Number: 1
ISSN: 1330-1039
Volume: 2
Year: 1993
Pages: from 37 to 55
Number of references: 32
Language: hrvatski
Summary: During his stay in Paris in 1760 Bošković studied the form
of the cell of bees as a mathematical problem of minimization of the
surface area for the given prismatic volume, pointing out the economic
motivation of this problem: "the most parsimonious use of wax". Having
solved the problem by means of geometric method, Bošković came to the
conclusion that the solution could be easily obtained by calculus. Within
the infinitesimal approach Bošković found the function describing the
surface area of the cell of bees and, consequently, the quantity of wax
used for the construction of honeycomb. Bošković's function can be
explained within two economic models: constrained optimization and
cost-minimizing choice of technology. The paper is accompanied by the first
translation into Croatian of geometric and infinitesimal solution published
in Bošković's supplement "De apium cellulis" ( "On the cells of bees").
Keywords: isocost, isoquant, cost-minimizing choice of technology, geometric form of the cell of bees, Boškoviuć's function describing the surface area of the cell of bees, minimum of function, geometric method, calculus, constrained optimization
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: A chronology of the life and work of Ruđer Bošković
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Dubrovački horizonti
Number: 35
ISSN: 0419-7925
Volume: 26
Year: 1995
Pages: from 41 to 48
Number of references: 10
Language: hrvatski
Summary: A chronology is focused on data pertinent to Bošković's
duties (Roman College, University of Pavia, Scuole Palatine at Milan,
French Navy), judgements of religious superiors, memberships in academies
in European scientific centres and to main achievements in disciplines of
his interest.
Keywords: philosophy, magisterium, theology, the Roman College, University of Pavia, Scuole Palatine at Milan, academies, main achievements
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: The achievements of Ruđer Bošković in physics and
astronomy
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
Journal: Svijet fizike
Number: 4
Volume: 2
Year: 1994
Pages: from 4 to 12
Number of references: 10
Language: hrvatski
Summary: Main Bošković's contributions to physics and astronomy
include these results:
(1) statical expertise of the cracks on the dome of the basilica of St.
Peter (1742-1743);
(2) theory of forces and explanation of the structure of matter
(1745-1758);
(3) measuring two degrees along the Rome-Rimini meridian and determining
the shape of the Earth (1750-1755);
(4) epigram on the heliocentric system (1756);
(5) a proposal of the experiment to be established the nature of light
(1766);
(6) determining the orbit of the newdiscovered celestial body Uranus
(1782).
Keywords: statics, theory of forces, structure of matter, geodesy, geophysics, heliocentrism, nature of light, telescope, theoretical astronomy, determining the orbite of Uranus
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Antropological foundations of family
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Journal: Obnovljeni život
Number: 6
ISSN: 0351-3947
Volume: 49
Year: 1994
Pages: from 565 to 572
Number of references: 11
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The difference between physiological anthropology, which
should, starting from the investigation of physiologico-biological
differences, give an answer to the question "what is man?", and pragmatic
anthropology which discusses whether man, as a free being, acts of his own
accord, or should or could at thus, the author discloses a perspective for
an anthropology of the future, an anthropology of "civilization of love"
and humaneness.
Keywords: anthropology, Kant, community, love
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: The power of power: Some thoughts on the essence and sense
of power
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Journal: Obnovljeni život
Number: 1
ISSN: 0351-3947
Volume: 49
Year: 1994
Pages: from 69 to 78
Number of references: 40
Language: hrvatski
Summary: Beyond the mere sociologico-phenomenological analysis of
the significance and sense of the power, the author seeks the ontological
and theological principles of power, according to the spiritual legacy of
K. Rahner and P. Tillich. We are confronted with power in all creatures,
but power is consumated only in freedom. Freedom, as a self-encounter, is
also always an acknowledgment of the power of the other. Corruption of
power, violence, occurs when power eludes or denies this acknowledgment.
The author reaches the conclusion that reflections on power can only be
possible within the christological context.
Keywords: power, freedom, K. Rahner, P. Tillich, ontology, theology, cristology
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Ruđer Bošković and the Confraternity of St. Jerome at Rome
- Authors:
- Korade, Mijo (176994)
- Editors
- Dadić, Žarko
Proceedings title: Zbornik radova međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa o Ruđeru Boškoviću/Proceedings
Language: engleski
Place: Zagreb
Year: 1991
Pages: from 259 to 263
Meeting: Međunarodni znanstveni skup o Ruđeru Boškoviću /The international Symposium on Ruđer Bošković
Held: from 10/05/87 to 10/07/87
Summary: This paper reveals the new facts about econimic side of
life ofbrothers Ruđer and baro Bošković. It explains the concept of
thetheir pension ("vitalizio") on the basis of the contract betweenthe
Collegium Romanum and the Confraternity of St. Jerome of 18March 1757.
Bošković urged to his superiors in the CollegiumRomanum to establish
"censo", i.e. to lend money at interest tothe Confraternity of St. Jerome
for the purpose of pension forthe brothers Bošković. Thus he became a
benefactor of Croatianconraternity in Rome.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, Baro Bošković, the Collegium Romanum, the Confraternity of St. Jerome, contract
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Bošković on his own theory of forces: from a sentence to
the theory of natural philosophy
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
- Editors
- Dadić, Žarko
Proceedings title: Zbornik radova međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa o Ruđeru Boškoviću/Proceedings
Language: engleski
Place: Zagreb
Year: 1991
Pages: from 29 to 36
Meeting: Međunarodni znanstveni skup o Ruđeru Boškoviću /The international Symposium on Ruđer Bošković
Held: from 10/05/87 to 10/07/87
Summary: Bošković constructed his theory of forces from his first
ideaexpressed in "De viribus vivis" (1745) to the final synthesis inhis
masterpiece "Theoria philosophiae naturalis" (1758). In "Deviribus vivis"
Bošković did not take a definite attitude towardwhether his idea about
forces in nature is a hypothesis, atheory, or just a sentence. From the
very beginning of "Delumine" (1748) he used the term theoria with no
exceptions.During the final revision of the theory of forces from 1757
to1758 there was a turning-point in Bošković's approach. Hisinterpretation
of forces became an interpretation of all thenature, i. e. "the theory of
natural philosophy".
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, theory of forces, sentence, hypothesis, theory, theory of natural philosophy, principle of continuity, Newton's desiderandum
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Bošković's theory of the transformation of geometric loci:
Program, axiomatics, sources
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
- Editors
- Dadić, Žarko
Proceedings title: Zbornik radova međunarodnog zannstvenog skupa o Ruđeru Boškoviću/Proceedings
Language: engleski
Place: Zagreb
Year: 1991
Pages: from 79 to 86
Meeting: Međunarodni znanstveni skup o Ruđeru Boškoviću /The international Symposium on Ruđer Bošković
Held: from 10/05/87 to 10/07/87
Summary: Induced by his study of conic sections, Bošković
constructed hisown theory of the transformations of geometric loci in the
period1747-1753, and published the results of his research in thetreatise
"De transformatione locorom geometricorum" (1754). Hecomprehended the
transformation of a continuous curve on thebasis of the relationship
between the fundamentals of conicsections and his own theory of geometric
transformations. Bycreating his system of definitions and canons, Bošković
offeredaxiomatics for the systematic research on geometrictransformations.
Thus, what he put in the centre of themathematical concern was not a
geometric quantity, but just thetransformation of that geometric quantity.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, transformation of geometric loci, conic sections, continuity, infinity, definitions, canons, theory of the transformation of geometric loci
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Ruđer Bošković and freedom
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
- Editors
- Steiner, Marijan
Proceedings title: Synthesis theologica
Language: hrvatski
Place: Zagreb
Year: 1994
Pages: from 479 to 491
Meeting: Zbornik u čast p. Rudolfa Brajičića SJ prigodom 75. obljetnice života
Keywords: freedom of scientific investigation, heliocentrism, opposition within the Church, regime of French kingdom, orders of Dubrovnik nobles, Croatian language as a criptic code, freedom of America, satire of Dubrovnik people on public and private affaires
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Dialectics of mystics and action: The philosophical
consideration on the actuality of the spirituality of St. Ignatius
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
- Editors
- Steiner, Marijan
Proceedings title: Synthesis theologica
Language: hrvatski
Place: Zagreb
Year: 1994
Pages: from 389 to 399
Meeting: Zbornik u čast p. Rudolfa Brajičića SJ prigodom 75. obljetnice života
Keywords: Ignatius Loyola, freedom, choice, selfrealization
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Bošković o problemu "nastanka brzine": geneza i
metodološke implikacije
- Authors:
- Martinović, Ivica (157212)
- Editors
- Bursill-Hall, Piers
Proceedings title: R. J. Boscovich: Vita e attivita scientifica/His life and scientific work
Language: engleski
Place: Roma, Italia
Year: 1993
Pages: from 59 to 79
Meeting: R. J. Boscovich: His life and scientific work
Held: from 05/18/88 to 05/24/95
Summary: The problem of "generatio velocitatis" and its genesis
reflected Bošković's relation to the choice of mathematical method in the
founding of dynamics in the period 1745-1770. Based on investigated sources
it is possible to recognize several phases in Bošković's search as far as
the mathematical method is concerned:
(1) the infinitesimal analysis of the implicit equation of the parabola;
(2) the dynamic analysis of free fall;
(3) the analysis od s'Gravesande's dynamic diagram as a generalisation of
free fall, when Bošković used geometrical ideas of the linear and
superficial infinitesimals in their defining forms;
(4) systematic exposition of the problem of "generatio velocitatis" by
means of geometrical constructions coupled with strong stress on the
Euclidean ideal;
(5) application of Bošković's continuous curve of forces, when Bošković
used the elementary integral calculus to explain the area under the
asimptotic arc of his curve;
(6) explanation of the generation of velocity as the foundation of the
mechanics and, particularly, hydrostatics in both the geometrical and
infinitesimal forms.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, Federico Sanvitali, Benedikt Stay, Giovanni Attilio Arnolfini, free fall, s'Gravesande's dynamic diagram, geometric method, integral calculus, Bošković's curve, hydrostatics
- Type of paper
: Ph.D.
Title: "The Roman period" of Bošković's thought
Faculty: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Author: ADLER NEVENKA
Date of defense: 06/07/93
Language: hrvatski
Number of pages: 362
Summary: In the early treatises "De viribus vivis" (1745)
and"Dissertationis de lumine pars secunda" (1748) Boškovićestablished the
fundamental deduction of his natural philosophy:from the epistemological
starting points "analogia et simplicitasnaturae" and the principle of
continuity to the conclusionexplaining the structure of matter represented
by indivisible andnon-extended points. The final result of the deduction
was inopposition to the general notion of the atomists and Newtonians:to
construct an extended body from non-extended points. Havingstarted from the
continuous curve of forces and discretedistribution of three points,
Bošković arrived at his originalinterpretation of the solidity of the
physical body. The limitsof cohesion and non-cohesion, as null-points of
his curve offorces, became that analogous structure that crowned
hisendeavour with the spatial conception on the system of
confocalspheroidal shells as equilibrium states of the third point of
theobserved system. This conception, which was never againpublished,
deserves to be called Bošković's "model of atom" from1748. In his treatise
"De maris aestu" (1747) Bošković formulatedthe controversy on the
simplicity of the straight line, but hedid not use the argument pertinent
to his curve of forces. Thisargument is revealed in the treatise "De
materiaedivisibilitate". While forming the theory of
geometrictransformations in his treatise "De transformatione
locorumgeometricorum" (1754), Bošković avoided defining the mysteries ofthe
infinite in terms of the Euclidean tradition, but gave alarge meaning to
this concept: all the manifestations of thepotential and actual infinite.
Only with "De continuitatis lege"(1754) did he start to make a strict
distinction between mysteryand absurdity in understanding the geometric
infinite, and fromthat time he recognized the mysteries of the infinite
("Infinitimysteria") only in those geometric quantities and
transformationsin which the potential infinite was manifest, on condition
thatthe principle of continuity was observed.
Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, natural philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, deduction of the principle of continuity, the continuous curve of forces, composition of particles, structure of matter, "model of atom" from 1748, simplicity of the straight line, the mystery of the infinite in geometry, Bernhard Bolzano, relation between geometric infinites, theory of forces, theory of transformations of geometric loci, theory of infinitesimals, calculus, Vincenzo Riccati, Anton Maria Lorgna
- Type of paper
: M.A.
Title: The Problem of Space and Time in Some Earlier Treatises of
Ruđer Bošković
Faculty: Filozofski fakultet/Centar za postdiplomske studije u Dubrovniku Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Date of defense: 12/04/92
Language: hrvatski
Number of pages: 184
Summary: Bošković has developed his own theory of space and
time
between 1746 and 1755. His theory is determined by his philosophy
of science, which I interpreted as a kind of conventionalism.These
methodological foundations we find in his earlier works(1741- 1745).
Another determinant element can be found ih theearliest formulation of his
theory of forces, developed in thetreatise De viribus vivis (1745). In that
treatise Boškovićpresents some important aspects of his understanding of
space andtime: the space is the extension of the force, the force is
anextensional and atemporal entity. That 'primacy' of space will bemuch
more emphasized in the following treatises.
In the treatises De cometis (1746) and De maris aestu(1747), taking
his law of forces as the starting-point, Boškovićbrings his own world
picture, based on the model of two spaces,the infinite immovable and the
finite movable space. The mainfeatures of that model are the hypothesis of
the immovable Earth,the postulate of the relative inertial force and the
finitnessand the mobility of the outer space. Although these
featuresessentially differ form Newton's views, they are meant byBošković
to preserve the laws of Newtonian mechanics. Themethodological consequences
of the Bošković's concept of spaceare: 1) the relativity of the knowledge
which is based onobservational data and experiments, 2) the possibility of
anon-Euclidean geometry.
In Bošković's model of microcosmic space, presented in the
treatise De materiae divisibilitate et principiis corporum(1748), the main
features are, on the one hand, the analogy ofspace and time and, on the
other hand, the geometricalinterpretation of the microcosmical space by
means of elementarytriangles and pyramids, and of the mathematical points
as theplaces of the matter-points. According to that Bošković considersthe
topic of space and time in the context of metaphysicalquaestio and of
geometrical presentation.
In the Supplementa (1755) Bošković gives the final form ofhis theory
of space and time. Bošković gives a definition ofspace and time as real or
imaginary modes of existence. Imaginarymodes are continuous, infinite and
infinitely divisible. They arethe possibility of the real modes, which are
finite, indivisibileand inextensive. In the methodological part Bošković
emphasizesthe knowledge of relative motion as the only one
possibleknowledge of motion and the impossibility of the congruence
ofspatial and temporal intervals.
Keywords: coventionalism, law of forces, absolute, relative, finite movable space, infinite immovable space, capacitas, analogy between space and time, modi existendi
- Type of paper
: M.A.
Title: Bošković's Comprehension of Knowledge
Faculty: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Date of defense: 02/01/93
Language: hrvatski
Number of pages: 113
Summary: The first part of the dissertation considers Bošković's
theory ofknowledge: his main epistemic concepts and theses. The influenceof
these theses on Bošković's physics is discussed in the secondpart of the
dissertation. The third part of the dissertationconsiders Bošković's
methodological standpoints and his mainmethodological principles: the
principle of induction, 'salvisphaenomenis', the principle of analogy and
simplicity of nature,'recta ratiocinatio'. The author concludes that
Bošković'sepistemic position is very close to rationalism.
Keywords: rationalism, ideas, reflection, 'lumen rationis', 'vis viva', induction, 'salvis phaenomenis', 'recta ratiocinatio', analogy and simplicity of nature
- Type of paper
: Mentorship
Title: The problem of space and time in some earlier treatises of
Ruđer Bošković
Faculty: Filozofski fakultet/Centar za postdiplomske studije u Dubrovniku Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Date of defense: 12/04/92
Number of pages: 184
Author: Čuljak Zvonimir
Degree level: M.A.
- Type of paper
: Manuscript
Title: The history of contemporary philosophy
- Authors:
- Koprek, Ivan (177315)
Language: hrvatski
- Type of paper
: Other
Title: "Ruđer Josip Bošković: 'The Supplement to the First Book"
of the Ten Book of the Recent Philosophy by Benedikt Stay, in: J. Talanga,
The Anthology of Croatian Philosophy written in Latin
- Authors:
- Čuljak, Zvonimir
Type of work: prijevod
Language: engleski
