Logos and Forms in Phaedo 96a-102a
... »Parmenides in Plato’ s Parmenides«, in: Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 5/2000 (2001), pp. 1-15 – described in a similar way the Parmenides of the Parmenides as a ...
... »Parmenides in Plato’ s Parmenides«, in: Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 5/2000 (2001), pp. 1-15 – described in a similar way the Parmenides of the Parmenides as a ...
Articles Plato and Aristophanes: Poets of Hope
... went about his usual business after a long night’s festivities before going home to sleep. 2. Like a Scene-Shifting Periact in the Theater If we shift our attention away from Socrates as the main character or concern, and instead focus that attention on ourselves, then the oracle begins to become cl ...
... went about his usual business after a long night’s festivities before going home to sleep. 2. Like a Scene-Shifting Periact in the Theater If we shift our attention away from Socrates as the main character or concern, and instead focus that attention on ourselves, then the oracle begins to become cl ...
Irwin`s Routledge Encyclopedia article on Aristotle
... Aristotle of Stagira is one of the two most important philosophers of the ancient world, and one of the four or five most important of any time or place. He was not an Athenian, but he spent most of his life as a student and teacher of philosophy in Athens. For twenty years he was a member of Plato’ ...
... Aristotle of Stagira is one of the two most important philosophers of the ancient world, and one of the four or five most important of any time or place. He was not an Athenian, but he spent most of his life as a student and teacher of philosophy in Athens. For twenty years he was a member of Plato’ ...
the tension between aristotle_s theories
... life and work, especially from fishing and sailing, such activities obviously being familiar to the Greek people, so a quadruped's legs are seen as the supports of a ship in dry dock27, the back legs of a grasshopper are like the rudder of a boat28, and a lobster's tail is like an oar29. The elephan ...
... life and work, especially from fishing and sailing, such activities obviously being familiar to the Greek people, so a quadruped's legs are seen as the supports of a ship in dry dock27, the back legs of a grasshopper are like the rudder of a boat28, and a lobster's tail is like an oar29. The elephan ...
A discussion of Aristotle`s De Anima
... to begin with chapter and work through page by page until ? Should we coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a ...
... to begin with chapter and work through page by page until ? Should we coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a ...
Socrates` Aspasian Oration: The Play of Philosophy and Politics in
... they were as Athenian citizens. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is the closest American equivalent-both a eulogy and an exercise in collective self-definition. But Lincoln'sspeech was an unusual event, while the public funeral oration was a long-standing and customary practice in Athens.8 According to ...
... they were as Athenian citizens. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is the closest American equivalent-both a eulogy and an exercise in collective self-definition. But Lincoln'sspeech was an unusual event, while the public funeral oration was a long-standing and customary practice in Athens.8 According to ...
connectedness
... Heisenberg and others followed his view in modern physics. This is a fifth point of my work. I compare Kumarajiva/Nagarjuna with European scientific modes of thought for a better understanding of Asia. I do not compare Kumarajiva/Nagarjuna with European philosophers like Hegel, Heidegger, Wittgenste ...
... Heisenberg and others followed his view in modern physics. This is a fifth point of my work. I compare Kumarajiva/Nagarjuna with European scientific modes of thought for a better understanding of Asia. I do not compare Kumarajiva/Nagarjuna with European philosophers like Hegel, Heidegger, Wittgenste ...
D. C. Schindler Plato`s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness
... philosophers and the threat of violence with which they shall be threatened by the cavedwellers. Socrates is obliged to speak even though there is no possibility of genuine communication. Thus, with no overt proposal as to what justice is—at 347a, even love of wisdom is not included as a viable cand ...
... philosophers and the threat of violence with which they shall be threatened by the cavedwellers. Socrates is obliged to speak even though there is no possibility of genuine communication. Thus, with no overt proposal as to what justice is—at 347a, even love of wisdom is not included as a viable cand ...
Sameness and Referential Opacity in Aristotle Francis Jeffry
... modern notion of identity to being something we would not wish.to call 'identity' at alJ.l In the Topics, an early work, we find hints of something we would recognize (although Aristotle is still claimed to have a "weak grip" on the concept); in Metaphysics V (late) we can find only a series of pron ...
... modern notion of identity to being something we would not wish.to call 'identity' at alJ.l In the Topics, an early work, we find hints of something we would recognize (although Aristotle is still claimed to have a "weak grip" on the concept); in Metaphysics V (late) we can find only a series of pron ...
Aristotle`s Theory of the Assertoric Syllogism
... Thus, Aristotle takes syllogistic validity to be formal. In fact, he does more than this. Many authors have been puzzled to determine what is the actual basis of syllogistic validity. It might appear that all validity is based on the perfect syllogisms to which all others are reduced (as we will see ...
... Thus, Aristotle takes syllogistic validity to be formal. In fact, he does more than this. Many authors have been puzzled to determine what is the actual basis of syllogistic validity. It might appear that all validity is based on the perfect syllogisms to which all others are reduced (as we will see ...
aristotle`s poetics - U
... responses to the contemplation of certain types of misfortune, responses which are the affective counterpart of ethical judgements on those who encounter such misfortune. Together these arguments confirm that the Poetics does not purport to seal poetry off from wider concerns and values, but that it ...
... responses to the contemplation of certain types of misfortune, responses which are the affective counterpart of ethical judgements on those who encounter such misfortune. Together these arguments confirm that the Poetics does not purport to seal poetry off from wider concerns and values, but that it ...
From Aristotle`s Ousia to Ibn Sina`s Jawhar
... The view expressed by Ibn Rushd is due to a misunderstanding of Ibn Sina. There are different meanings of accident and accidental in the logic of Ibn Sina’s, which Ibn Rushd failed to take into serious consideration. In his famous book Najat,11 Ibn Sina clearly points out the importance of these dif ...
... The view expressed by Ibn Rushd is due to a misunderstanding of Ibn Sina. There are different meanings of accident and accidental in the logic of Ibn Sina’s, which Ibn Rushd failed to take into serious consideration. In his famous book Najat,11 Ibn Sina clearly points out the importance of these dif ...
Ancient Skepticism, for
... avoid anything lesser than knowledge––are norms of assent. That is, a central component of Stoic philosophy addresses when and how one should (and should not) assent.4 ...
... avoid anything lesser than knowledge––are norms of assent. That is, a central component of Stoic philosophy addresses when and how one should (and should not) assent.4 ...
Beauty as harmony of the soul: the aesthetic of the Stoics
... Stoics endorsed. According to the first alternative, one might develop the appropriate orientation through habit and training. For example, a child’s carers would model the correct orientation to the events of the world through their behaviour and would reward a similar orientation when observed in ...
... Stoics endorsed. According to the first alternative, one might develop the appropriate orientation through habit and training. For example, a child’s carers would model the correct orientation to the events of the world through their behaviour and would reward a similar orientation when observed in ...
Session 4: Doing philosophy: fallacies
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
PLATO`S THEORY OF LOVE IN THE LYSIS: A DEFENCE*
... Lysis as an important Platonic work. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of recent Platonic studies has emerged out of the attempt to study Plato not only as a philosopher but as a literary artist. Foremost among the writers viewing Plato in this manner was the late Hans-Georg Gadamer, who dem ...
... Lysis as an important Platonic work. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of recent Platonic studies has emerged out of the attempt to study Plato not only as a philosopher but as a literary artist. Foremost among the writers viewing Plato in this manner was the late Hans-Georg Gadamer, who dem ...
Trying to keep philosophy honest
... model for what is happening now. Tragic as it was, the two traditions have managed to live on more or less independently of one another. They do not need one another (or at least they like to pretend that they do not). The tradition from Wittgenstein, on the other hand, simply could not exist in spl ...
... model for what is happening now. Tragic as it was, the two traditions have managed to live on more or less independently of one another. They do not need one another (or at least they like to pretend that they do not). The tradition from Wittgenstein, on the other hand, simply could not exist in spl ...
Boethius Dacus on the supreme good
... of the value of beings. This delight is greater than that of sense. Therefore, he despises sense pleasures. But many sins and vices consist in excessive sense pleasure. Thirdly, because there is no sin in understanding and theorizing. There is no possibility of excess and of sin in the order of supr ...
... of the value of beings. This delight is greater than that of sense. Therefore, he despises sense pleasures. But many sins and vices consist in excessive sense pleasure. Thirdly, because there is no sin in understanding and theorizing. There is no possibility of excess and of sin in the order of supr ...
On the Theory and Practice of Intercultural Philosophy
... without the violence of a particular structure. It is about a new cul‐ ture of philosophising. Several questions that are inseparable from this new culture arise naturally: What obstacles may hinder a peaceful meeting and constructive exchange between cultures, systems of thought, ...
... without the violence of a particular structure. It is about a new cul‐ ture of philosophising. Several questions that are inseparable from this new culture arise naturally: What obstacles may hinder a peaceful meeting and constructive exchange between cultures, systems of thought, ...
The Problem of Substance in Metaphysics
... universals, however considers that Plato had misunderstood the problem of universals in so far as this belief led him to the conception of Forms, which has an intolerable consequence of not being able to distinguish universals from particulars. This led Aristotle to develop the idea of form and matt ...
... universals, however considers that Plato had misunderstood the problem of universals in so far as this belief led him to the conception of Forms, which has an intolerable consequence of not being able to distinguish universals from particulars. This led Aristotle to develop the idea of form and matt ...
Why Didnâ•Žt Plato Just Write Arguments? The Role of Image
... activity carried out beyond the human realm. The Phaedo offers a conception of philosophy as a human activity carried out within—and because of—our limitations. Our first indication that philosophy might be the remedy for human limitation comes not from Socrates, but from Simmias. Simmias and Cebes ...
... activity carried out beyond the human realm. The Phaedo offers a conception of philosophy as a human activity carried out within—and because of—our limitations. Our first indication that philosophy might be the remedy for human limitation comes not from Socrates, but from Simmias. Simmias and Cebes ...
Aristotle and the Early Stoics on Moral Responsibility
... An action is involuntary if it occurs either “by reason of ignorance” (di’ agnoian) or “by compulsion” (bia, 1109b35-1110a1). "Compulsion" is a force outside the agent: "that is compulsory of which the moving principle [or origin—archē] is outside, being a principle in which nothing is contributed b ...
... An action is involuntary if it occurs either “by reason of ignorance” (di’ agnoian) or “by compulsion” (bia, 1109b35-1110a1). "Compulsion" is a force outside the agent: "that is compulsory of which the moving principle [or origin—archē] is outside, being a principle in which nothing is contributed b ...
Maimonides on Free Will - The Metaphysical Society of America
... life devoted to the apprehension of the intelligibles for which this world is a preparation. Life in the world to come is thus a pure and refined continuation of the mind. From an Aristotelian point of view, human potential is fulfilled through apprehending to the full extent one’s intelligence trut ...
... life devoted to the apprehension of the intelligibles for which this world is a preparation. Life in the world to come is thus a pure and refined continuation of the mind. From an Aristotelian point of view, human potential is fulfilled through apprehending to the full extent one’s intelligence trut ...
Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the - Philsci
... the principle of coincidence of opposites, rather points in the direction of a permanent and momentaneous re-instantiation of things in the world in a web of totally interconnected events. Reality is One. This does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interc ...
... the principle of coincidence of opposites, rather points in the direction of a permanent and momentaneous re-instantiation of things in the world in a web of totally interconnected events. Reality is One. This does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interc ...