The book provides an introduction to six fundamental philosophy concepts - philosophy, language, knowledge, truth, being and good. At the same time, it aims to initiate its readers into the process of philosophical thinking. The book is addressed to students and laypeople, but also contains new [...]

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 [...]

Publication of the theoretical part of the work of August Boeckh, entitled Encyclopedia and Methodology of the Philological Sciences, fills a gap in philological studies in France. This work, published posthumously in 1877 (Teubner, Leipzig) by one of the disciplies of Boeckh, E. Bratuschek, [...]

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, [...]

This book explores the intimate connections, conflicts and discontinuities between religion and philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions from Antiquity to the early Medieval period. It presents a broader comparative view of Platonism by examining the strong Platonist resonances among [...]

Vasilij V. Zen'kovskij (1881-1962) untersucht in seinem 1926 erschienenen Buch die Frage des Verhältnisses von Russland und Europa, wie es in der russischen Kritik der europäischen Kultur seit der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts gesehen wird. Zen'kovskijs Fazit ist angesichts der gegenwärtigen [...]

This book offers a distinctive interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. It suggests that Hegel's approach in the 1807 Phenomenology is akin to Socratic 'midwifery'. In Plato's Theaetetus Socrates (the midwife) elicits from Theaetetus his views on the nature of [...]

Vengono qui pubblicati gli Atti di un convegno, svoltosi a Napoli nell'ottobre 2011, che ha concluso una ricerca biennale condotta presso le Università di Milano, Napoli e Benevento e finanziata dal Ministero italiano dell'Università e della Ricerca. Rispetto ad altre iniziative europee che hanno [...]