Engaging Socrates by Joel Alden Schlosser
... and flanked by a coterie of admiring disciplines.4 In Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” for example, Socrates stands by Plato’s side ensconced in the calm confines of a palace surrounded by loquacious fellow philosophers. While Anselm Feuerbach’s “Das Gastmahl des Platon” takes a more provocative to ...
... and flanked by a coterie of admiring disciplines.4 In Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” for example, Socrates stands by Plato’s side ensconced in the calm confines of a palace surrounded by loquacious fellow philosophers. While Anselm Feuerbach’s “Das Gastmahl des Platon” takes a more provocative to ...
View - OhioLINK ETD
... to my chapters on the dialogues in which Solon is a very prominent figure, TimaeusCritias, Republic, and Laws. Chapter Two examines Critias’ use of his ancestor Solon to establish his own philosophic credentials. Chapter Three suggests that Socrates reappropriates the aims and themes of Solon’s poli ...
... to my chapters on the dialogues in which Solon is a very prominent figure, TimaeusCritias, Republic, and Laws. Chapter Two examines Critias’ use of his ancestor Solon to establish his own philosophic credentials. Chapter Three suggests that Socrates reappropriates the aims and themes of Solon’s poli ...
Popper and Xenophanes - ORCA
... soon after the Persian invasion of the coastal cities of Asia Minor of 545 BCE (5). (Popper has more to say about how he came to settle in Elea, and I will come to that later.) The fragments of his writings are in hexameters, just like those of that famous son of Elea, Parmenides, with whom his lif ...
... soon after the Persian invasion of the coastal cities of Asia Minor of 545 BCE (5). (Popper has more to say about how he came to settle in Elea, and I will come to that later.) The fragments of his writings are in hexameters, just like those of that famous son of Elea, Parmenides, with whom his lif ...
socrates the cosmopolitan
... that was developing in fifth century B.C.E. Greek thought and that later flourished among the Cynics and especially the Stoics, influences Socratic ethics as it is presented by Plato’s early dialogues. 5 Plato’s Socrates is consistently a citizen of the world who renders his special service to Athen ...
... that was developing in fifth century B.C.E. Greek thought and that later flourished among the Cynics and especially the Stoics, influences Socratic ethics as it is presented by Plato’s early dialogues. 5 Plato’s Socrates is consistently a citizen of the world who renders his special service to Athen ...
A Time for Silence? - UK National Commission for UNESCO
... Monastic silence is a spiritual practice found in a number of religious traditions over the centuries, and to which we shall return to below. The point is that, while we think about ...
... Monastic silence is a spiritual practice found in a number of religious traditions over the centuries, and to which we shall return to below. The point is that, while we think about ...
Ethical Encounter - sikkim university library
... counter-examples to such theories, make this need all the more urgent. This series affords an opportunity for writers who share this conviction, one as relevant to logic, epistemology and the philosophy of mind, as it is to ethics, politics, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. Authors will be ...
... counter-examples to such theories, make this need all the more urgent. This series affords an opportunity for writers who share this conviction, one as relevant to logic, epistemology and the philosophy of mind, as it is to ethics, politics, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. Authors will be ...
Was Pyrrho the Founder of Skepticism?
... skepticism struggled with the charge of negative dogmatism. For instance, Arcesilaus and Carneades tried to explain how they can be skeptics and live and philosophize. Despite their explanations, Aenesidemus accused them of dogmatism and he himself was similarly challenged by Sextus. In modern recep ...
... skepticism struggled with the charge of negative dogmatism. For instance, Arcesilaus and Carneades tried to explain how they can be skeptics and live and philosophize. Despite their explanations, Aenesidemus accused them of dogmatism and he himself was similarly challenged by Sextus. In modern recep ...
Pragma-dialectics fallacies of relevance - UvA-DARE
... place where one commonly can get gas. In (3), a casual interaction with not a clear purpose, the response of B is relevant –for Grice– because it is a clarification of what A thinks about the situation of Smith; is it important to note that this example is different than the other examples: A is not ...
... place where one commonly can get gas. In (3), a casual interaction with not a clear purpose, the response of B is relevant –for Grice– because it is a clarification of what A thinks about the situation of Smith; is it important to note that this example is different than the other examples: A is not ...
The Historiography of Xenophon
... sustaining everlasting value. Xenophon (c. 430 BCE-354 BCE), known for his writings on the Persian Wars, Cyrus the Great, and the March of the 10,000, singlehandedly produced several changes to historical writing that altered the very essence of historical thought in a way that challenged even the r ...
... sustaining everlasting value. Xenophon (c. 430 BCE-354 BCE), known for his writings on the Persian Wars, Cyrus the Great, and the March of the 10,000, singlehandedly produced several changes to historical writing that altered the very essence of historical thought in a way that challenged even the r ...
FROM FICTION TO PHRONÉSIS A critical dialogue with Martha
... the degree of Master of Philosophy (Applied Ethics) ...
... the degree of Master of Philosophy (Applied Ethics) ...
The Theaetetus as a Superior Apology.
... Apology and the Theaetetus. A.A. Long argues that “Plato, up until and concluding with the composition of the Theaetetus, never stops re-writing the Apology” (119). Long is not contesting the composition date of the Apology, but analyzing Plato’s aims in writing his dialogues: Plato is still trying ...
... Apology and the Theaetetus. A.A. Long argues that “Plato, up until and concluding with the composition of the Theaetetus, never stops re-writing the Apology” (119). Long is not contesting the composition date of the Apology, but analyzing Plato’s aims in writing his dialogues: Plato is still trying ...
ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ CONTEXTUALIZING LATE GREEK PHILOSOPHY
... by GARTH FOWDEN 6. Plotinus among the Christians ...
... by GARTH FOWDEN 6. Plotinus among the Christians ...
predication theory: classical vs modern
... This essay aims, first, at describing the conflict between the theory of predication (classical, Aristotelian) prevailing in philosophy until the end of the 19th century, and the theory arisen with the new logic (modern, Fregean). Three features characterize the pre- Fregean period: 1) conflation of ...
... This essay aims, first, at describing the conflict between the theory of predication (classical, Aristotelian) prevailing in philosophy until the end of the 19th century, and the theory arisen with the new logic (modern, Fregean). Three features characterize the pre- Fregean period: 1) conflation of ...
Ph 205 Historical Introduction to Philosophy
... Is what is good or bad † PHR pR. 66-69 based on public (Phaedo) opinion? 8. Tues., Sept. 25 Aristotle’s Logic: What PHR pH. 68-76 is needed to think † http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ clearly? aristotlelogic/#AriLogWorOrg 9. Fri., Sept. 28 Aristotle’s Metaphysics: PHR pH. 76-82 What is change? † P ...
... Is what is good or bad † PHR pR. 66-69 based on public (Phaedo) opinion? 8. Tues., Sept. 25 Aristotle’s Logic: What PHR pH. 68-76 is needed to think † http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ clearly? aristotlelogic/#AriLogWorOrg 9. Fri., Sept. 28 Aristotle’s Metaphysics: PHR pH. 76-82 What is change? † P ...
Dane Rudhyar and Alan Leo Platonistic roots
... Here Leo is clearly defining fate as coming from or being represented by the “planetary influences” and it is the journey of life for the individual to overcome these fated forces through the use of their own will power. Alan Leo’s astrology is spiritually driven, with the theme that the horoscope p ...
... Here Leo is clearly defining fate as coming from or being represented by the “planetary influences” and it is the journey of life for the individual to overcome these fated forces through the use of their own will power. Alan Leo’s astrology is spiritually driven, with the theme that the horoscope p ...
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5. Conformism and analytic philosophy[11]
... that its recent and contemporary recession has been due to no more than a change of intellectual fashions, unimportant in the longer perspective of philosophical history? (Warnock 1958, 123) ...
... that its recent and contemporary recession has been due to no more than a change of intellectual fashions, unimportant in the longer perspective of philosophical history? (Warnock 1958, 123) ...
Cosmopolitanism, Stoicism, and Liberalism
... These comments indicate that the Stoic notion of cosmopolitanism rests on the more celebrated Stoic doctrine of natural law: there is a law that rules, is universal in scope, will benefit those who follow its precepts, and will punish those who attempt to work against it.22 A good way of understandi ...
... These comments indicate that the Stoic notion of cosmopolitanism rests on the more celebrated Stoic doctrine of natural law: there is a law that rules, is universal in scope, will benefit those who follow its precepts, and will punish those who attempt to work against it.22 A good way of understandi ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
... can be good in a world without viewers, and accept for the sake of argument that this painting has aesthetic value in that world. It seems intuitively plausible to claim that the value of this world is constituted solely by the aesthetic value of the painting. But now consider a world which contains ...
... can be good in a world without viewers, and accept for the sake of argument that this painting has aesthetic value in that world. It seems intuitively plausible to claim that the value of this world is constituted solely by the aesthetic value of the painting. But now consider a world which contains ...
Princeton University Press 2009. xv + 525 pages $99.95 (cloth ISBN
... three are largely ignored in contemporary scholarship. Benner wishes to right that wrong, explaining how his early admirers—including such luminaries as Hegel, Fichte, Bacon, Spinoza, and Rousseau—could view him so differently than we. She wishes to revive the tradition of Machiavelli readership “th ...
... three are largely ignored in contemporary scholarship. Benner wishes to right that wrong, explaining how his early admirers—including such luminaries as Hegel, Fichte, Bacon, Spinoza, and Rousseau—could view him so differently than we. She wishes to revive the tradition of Machiavelli readership “th ...
ESSENTIALISM IN PARMENIDES OF ELEA
... permanent – temporary, real – unreal, true – untrue, and what have you. Such epithets also manifest essentialism (Hallett 1991). Notwithstanding, Parmenides avers that such oppositions are ‘opposite in appearance’, ‘mere names’, ‘a deceitful ordering of words’, which have no real existence whatsoeve ...
... permanent – temporary, real – unreal, true – untrue, and what have you. Such epithets also manifest essentialism (Hallett 1991). Notwithstanding, Parmenides avers that such oppositions are ‘opposite in appearance’, ‘mere names’, ‘a deceitful ordering of words’, which have no real existence whatsoeve ...
DERRIDA/CIXOUS, CIXOUS/DERRIDA Prof. Claire Colebrook
... seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of biography. The philosopher’s living thought – say Husserl’s beginning as a philosopher of mathematics who commenced his career explaining the possibility of numbers psychol ...
... seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of biography. The philosopher’s living thought – say Husserl’s beginning as a philosopher of mathematics who commenced his career explaining the possibility of numbers psychol ...
Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato: Revisiting the Image of "Socrates
... expresses a sense of ignorance against the backdrop of an “understanding” that allows for questions to be given form, all the while embracing the radical finitude bound up with all human efforts to make sense of the world. This form of the dialectic is at work in the “aporetic” dialogues (Gonzalez 1 ...
... expresses a sense of ignorance against the backdrop of an “understanding” that allows for questions to be given form, all the while embracing the radical finitude bound up with all human efforts to make sense of the world. This form of the dialectic is at work in the “aporetic” dialogues (Gonzalez 1 ...
Truth and Friendship: The Importance of the Conversation of Friends
... drawn, indeed inspired, to focus on what is most important. Who has not had the experience, particularly when actually engaged in conversation with a friend, ofbeing inspired by that friend to be better? What we might not do for ourselves, or do as well for ourselves, we will do or do better because ...
... drawn, indeed inspired, to focus on what is most important. Who has not had the experience, particularly when actually engaged in conversation with a friend, ofbeing inspired by that friend to be better? What we might not do for ourselves, or do as well for ourselves, we will do or do better because ...
Pythagoras - A Chronicle of Mathematical People by Robert A. Nowlan
... PYTHAGORAS The details of the life of Pythagoras (c. 569 BCE – 500 BCE) are sketchy and the accuracy of the accounts provided by later commentators centuries after his death are doubtful. What is known is that he was born at Samos on the western coast of what is now Turkey, the son of a prominent ci ...
... PYTHAGORAS The details of the life of Pythagoras (c. 569 BCE – 500 BCE) are sketchy and the accuracy of the accounts provided by later commentators centuries after his death are doubtful. What is known is that he was born at Samos on the western coast of what is now Turkey, the son of a prominent ci ...