The Phaedrus is widely used as a text on which to try out new lines of interpretation. Hence the choice of this dialogue as sole topic of the 'Second Symposium Platonicum'.
Discussions at the Symposium led to the exploration and evaluation of various ways of interpreting the dialogue, both [...]

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 [...]

Platon ist seit Leibniz der ständige Gesprächspartner deutscher Philosophen. Dieses Buch handelt von den Platoninterpretationen Kants, Natorps, und Heideggers. Es hat zwei Dinge zum Ziel: einerseits, stellt es die wichtigen Einsichten dieser Denker zu Platon dar, und, andererseits, will es diese im [...]

Deutsche Erstübersetzung einer bedeutenden Schrift des aus der Sowjetunion ausgewiesenen Denkers, in welcher die Entwicklung des russischen Selbstbewusstseins geschichtsphilosophisch und religionsphilosophisch gedeutet wird.
Nikolaj Berdjajev (1874-1948) erlangte im Westen größere Bekanntheit als [...]

This book now appears in a fourth edition, which includes a Bibliographical Supplement that continues the previous ones up to 2015. It proposes an interpretation of the Timaeus that takes into account all those that have been proposed throughout the ages.
In the Timaeus, Plato [...]

Stefania Centrones Studien zu Bolzano umfassen sieben Aufsätze zu verschiedenen Aspekten von Bernard Bolzanos philosophischer Logik. Sie umspannen Bolzanos Frühwerk wie auch seine spätere Schaffensphase. Centrone widmet sich dabei sowohl Bolzanos Ontologie als auch seiner Philosophie des Geistes. [...]

L'idea centrale delle Lezioni Eleatiche di Giovanni Casertano è che, nel misurarsi con Parmenide, Platone tiene conto della rilettura che era stata fatta da Protagora e Gorgia col proposito di ristabilire, in contrasto con il loro schema interpretativo, la possibilità di accedere ad una verità che [...]

This work aims to determine what function the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus (5th century AD) attributes to dialectic in the fifth book of his Commentary on the Parmenides. The first Italian translation of that text is provided, accompanied by an introduction and a commentary. The main [...]

The traditional name 'destiny' was used in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy to designate a situation where everything happens in an inescapable order. Stoics were the main defenders of such theory. They maintained that, since everything has a cause, the sequence of causes and events is laid down [...]

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' [...]