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Nonostante il tentativo di Aristotele di offrire un’esposizione esaustiva di tutta la problematica del luogo e di darne una soluzione definitiva con l’arcinota definizione di luogo come primo limite immobile del contenente, fin... more
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      PhilosophyAristotleAncient PhilosophyAncient Greek Philosophy
En este trabajo me propongo mostrar cómo la interacción ideológica documentada en la época arcaica de Grecia se rigió por una dinámica de tipo com-petitivo que involucró a representantes del saber poético tradicional y a los practicantes... more
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      Greek LiteratureAncient Greek Philosophy
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      AristotleAncient PhilosophyAncient Greek Philosophy
Contrairement aux interprétations coutumières il y a un dialogue permanent entre la République, le Politique et les Lois et non une rupture ou un changement substantiel de la pensée politique de Platon. Une analyse minutieuse de Leg. V... more
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      History of IdeasPolitical TheoryPlatoHistory of Political Thought
Many have argued that Plato’s intermediates are not independent entities. Rather, they exemplify the incapacity of discursive thought (διάνοια) for cognizing Forms. But just what does this incapacity consist in? Any successful answer will... more
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      PlatoAristotleHistory of MathematicsCritical Thinking
Drawing upon John Burnet’s interpretation of mesotēs, I explore the original meanings of this important Greek word and its inherent relations to the concepts of formal cause, final cause, and actuality [energeia]. My investigation reveals... more
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      MetaphysicsAristotlePhenomenologyMoral Philosophy
This is a PDF file of my 1990 book: Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths (Chicago: Open Court, 1990)
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      MythologyTruthFriedrich NietzscheMartin Heidegger
ABSTRACT: This paper serves two purposes: (i) it can be used by students as an introduction to chapters 1-5 of book iii of the NE; (ii) it suggests an answer to the unresolved question what overall objective this section of the NE has.... more
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      Free Will, Moral ResponsibilityDecision MakingAristotleJudgment and decision making
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      ReligionChristianityHistoryAncient History
The concept of antinatalism is now becoming popular on the Internet. Many online newspaper articles deal with this topic, and numerous academic papers on antinatalism have been published over the past ten years in the fields of philosophy... more
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      Japanese StudiesMetaphysicsEnvironmental PhilosophyBuddhist Philosophy
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      ClassicsHistory of ReligionRoman ReligionMagic
Special attention in this Newsletter for pythagorean women. Sarah B. Pomeroy interview + CV, Hypatia, Museum of Pythagoras, basilica Pitagorica, Conferences , New books, Book reviews, Book chapters, Journal articles,... more
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      Presocratic PhilosophyAncient PhilosophyPythagoreanismAncient Greek Philosophy
Parmenides’ philosophy is unique in the history of ideas in Europe, but it has a striking parallel in India, from about the same age. The unchanging Absolute, called ‘Being’ or ‘Existent’; the depreciation of everyday objects as mere... more
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      Presocratic PhilosophyIndian PhilosophyIndian studiesAncient Greek Philosophy
The book deals with questions that complement the philosophical aspects of Parmenides, mainly with an analysis of the proem in light of the Greek literary and religious tradition to determine which are traditional and which are novel.... more
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      Presocratic PhilosophyClassical philologyAncient PhilosophyAncient Greek Philosophy
The second Book of the Politics has been object of multiple considerations, but it has called the attention of the scholars mainly because of its detailed criticism of Plato's political projects, especially the Republic. In fact Aristotle... more
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      Political PhilosophyClassicsHistory of IdeasPolitical Theory
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      Hellenistic PhilosophyTheurgyAncient Greek PhilosophyIamblichus
With Empedocles, the qualities of a creative religious, mytho-poetic imagination fluent in Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and Parmenides allies itself with a rational mind keenly interested in understanding the natural world.: The first... more
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      MythologyClassicsPresocratic PhilosophyAncient Philosophy
Every scholar of ancient philosophy, I suppose, has written a paper on the Third Man Argument. This is my version ... (written in GERMAN) „Das Argument vom dritten Menschen“, in: Rolf. W. Puster (Hg.), Klassische Argumentationen in der... more
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      PlatoAncient PhilosophyAncient Greek PhilosophyARISTOTLE - PLATO - METAPHYSICS - EPISTEMOLOGY
Celem artykułu jest przeanalizowanie, w jaki sposób J. Keats i W. B. Yeats w swej poezji próbują ocalić piękno przed niszczącym je przemijaniem. Keats w "Odzie do Urny Greckiej" przedstawia następujące rozwiązanie: oto należy zatrzymać... more
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      William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler YeatsPhilosophy of TimePhilosophy of Time
Celem artykułu jest przeanalizowanie, w jaki sposób J. Keats i W. B. Yeats w swej poezji próbują ocalić piękno przed niszczącym je przemijaniem. Keats w "Odzie do Urny Greckiej" przedstawia następujące rozwiązanie: oto należy zatrzymać... more
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      William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler YeatsPhilosophy of TimePhilosophy of Time
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      HomerPresocratic PhilosophyPlatoPythagoreanism
Introduzione ai libri V-VI Bibliografia Sigle e abbreviazioni usate negli apparati critici Testo e traduzione libro V Testo e traduzione libro VI Commento al libro V Capitoli 1 - 8 (M. E. De Luna) p. 263 - Capitoli 9 - 12 (C. Zizza) p.... more
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      Ancient HistoryPhilosophyClassicsAristotle
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      Presocratic PhilosophyAncient Greek PhilosophyAnaximanderAncient Greek Tragedy and its Reception
Complete English translation of the article published originally in Russian (2015). Summary It is commonly believed that the epic Theogony of Epimenides of Crete derives from the corpus of pseudepigrapha... more
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      Greek LiteratureGreek EpicPythagoreanismAncient Greek Philosophy
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      ReligionGnosticismHistoryAncient History
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      Ancient Egyptian ReligionAncient ReligionTheurgyAncient Philosophy
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      AristotleAncient Greek Philosophy
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      Ancient Greek ReligionAncient Greek Philosophy
This book is the first complete collection and analysis of ancient testimony relating to the chronology of the early Greek natural philosophers, astronomers, and geometers who were active before Aristotle. New estimates are given for the... more
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      Ancient Greek HistoryAncient Greek PhilosophyAncient Greek Science and Philosophy
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      Ancient Greek PhilosophyVida De Pitagoras
L'ultimo grande tragediografo della letteratura greca era misogino oppure no? La nostra lettura delle sue opere è stata modificata dal pensiero aristofaneo? In questo saggio breve si analizza la duplice realtà euripidea.
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      Greek LiteratureGreek TragedyAncient Greek ReligionAncient Greek History
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/716031 Babylonian hermeneutics has been the subject of several studies in recent years that have showed that speculative thought exploited the potentiality of the cuneiform system through... more
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      Sumerian ReligionPhilosophyGreek LiteratureNear Eastern Studies
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      Ancient Greek PhilosophyFilosofia Greca
The ancient Hellenic world was composed of more sovereign states than the contemporary one. Aristotle alone studied the constitutions of over150 city-states or poleis. As such it was a microcosm of a sociocultural system which existed... more
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      International RelationsClassicsHistory of International RelationsAncient Greek Philosophy
This is a new translation (not a revision of my 1998), which is co-ordinate with my Nicomachean Ethics (2014), Metaphysics (2016), and forthcoming De Anima (2017) and Rhetoric (2018). It is due out in March 2017.
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      Political PhilosophyPolitical TheoryAristotlePolitical Science
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      ReligionGreek TragedyPhilosophy Of ReligionAristotle
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      Roman LawAncient Greek Philosophy
"Paper looks at the writings of Athanasius, Didymus the Blind, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus to affirm the divinity of the Holy Spirit against the Pneumatomachians and other Neo-Arians between the First... more
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      Early ChristianityAncient Greek Philosophy
Claudius Ptolemy sketches in Iudic. 4.3-6 a theory on the origin of language that follows Epicurus’ doctrine. Since Ptolemy’s approach contains a naturalistic stage, this paper also discusses a section of another of Ptolemy’s works,... more
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      Ancient Greek PhilosophyOrigin of LanguageAncient Greek LanguageClaudius Ptolemy
We firstly find traces of systematical and comprehensive thought related to existence of the universe in Plato and Aristotle. Plato, by the doctrine of ideas which is the basis of his whole philosophy, accepted that the objective world... more
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      Philosophy of CosmologyAncient Greek Philosophy
Le zoonosi contemporanee ci costringono a porci una domanda che già gli antichi pensatori si erano posti più o meno esplicitamente. Le risposte sono spiazzanti e per molti versi attuali: mangiamo gli animali perché non siamo dèi (e quindi... more
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      PhilosophyClassicsHuman-Animal RelationsAristotle
This course offers an introduction to the history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the end of the Hellenistic Age (roughly the 16th to the 1st centuries BCE), drawing on both source materials and modern works. This is a... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryEuropean HistoryMilitary History
Review of Tushar Irani, Plato on the Value of Philosophy. The Art of Argument in the "Gorgias" and "Phaedrus" (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017).
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      RhetoricPlatoAncient PhilosophyAncient Greek Rhetoric
This is a review of an introduction, translation and commentary on Plato's Apology by Michael Stokes.
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      Ancient Greek PhilosophyPlato's Apology of Socrates
The establishment of reason as the primordial source of force for better existence by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle was a significant contribution to humanity. Their emphasis on intelligence as a path of analysis that leads to... more
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      PhilosophyPolitical PhilosophyPhilosophy of SciencePhilosophy Of Religion
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      Intellectual HistoryClassicsAristotleHistory of Medicine
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      ReligionEnvironmental SciencePhilosophy of ScienceIslamic Philosophy
""The paper provides an analysis of Protagorean philosophy, concentrating on Protagoras' famous homo mensura fragment. The examination is supported by significant philological clarifications, which eventually lead to the conclusion that... more
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      RelativismAncient Greek PhilosophySophistsProtagoras
Je mehr Möglichkeiten der Lebensführung wir erkennen, desto dringlicher wird die Frage: Wie lebe ich gut? Wer allerdings in der gegenwärtigen Philosophie die Klärung seiner Frage erwartet, wird zunächst enttäuscht. Er wird ein... more
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      PhilosophyEthicsPlatoAristotle
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      Greek LiteratureAncient Greek Philosophy