This book offers inter alia a systematic investigation of the actual argumentative strategy of Socratic conversation and explorations of Socratic and Platonic morality including an examination of eudaimonia and the mental conception of health in the Republic as self-control, [...]

Isaac Newtons 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' ist eines der wichtigsten Werke der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Sie stellt die Basis des Theoriegebäudes der Newtonschen Physik und ihrer mathematischen Grundlagen dar. Im Jahre 1687 wurde sie, in Latein geschrieben, als Buch veröffentlicht. [...]

The essays in this volume provide an important contribution to the study of the thought of Epicurus and his school: they are placed in a time of great rebirth of interest in Epicurus' philosophical system and, more in general, in the Hellenistic philosophies. The studies are organized into several [...]

In Apologia, Plato first represented Socrates as a transparent philosopher who had nothing to hide. Later, in the Theaetetus and other dialogues, he describes Socrates' midwifery as shrouded in mystery. In doing so, Plato moves decidedly closer to the previous, 'rather esoteric' [...]

The Theaetetus is subtitled peri epistemes, on knowledge, and peirastikos, tentative. Theaetetus' three attempted definitions of knowledge, each ventured only to fail, are structured in a cascading reduction. This regress functions both negatively, as an indirect demonstration [...]

This book offers a synthesis of modern research devoted to Simplicius's life and to three of his five commentaries: On Epictetus' Handbook, On Aristotle's De anima, On Aristotle's Categories. Its biographical part brings to light the historical role played by this Neoplatonic [...]

History follows a tortuous, at times unfathomable path. Yet there are those who discern a sense, a unifying drive, even, in that intricate tangle of events. They believe a powerful rationality acts within history, which needs to be understood through a seamless conceptual structure. Thus, a science [...]

Les contributions rassemblées ici abordent l'histoire des interprétations et des usages de la philosophie platonicienne à partir de l'interdépendance entre exégèse et définition du corpus. Il ne s'agit pas de jalonner l'histoire du platonisme ni celle du corpus platonicien, mais d'étudier telle [...]

This anthology contains twelve papers on various aspects of Platonism, ranging from Plato's Republic to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus and Hermias, to the use of Platonic philosophy by Cudworth and Schleiermacher. The papers cover topics in ethics, psychology, religion, [...]