This book is a study of Plato's portraiture of Socrates and of his βίος φιλοσοφικός and of the cultural semantics that underlie it. It focuses on the introductory part of this particular dialogue (57a-61c), with particular emphasis on the repeated references to Aesop and on Socrates' reported [...]

Mit der rasanten Veränderung der wissenschaftlich-technischen Welt, den wissenschafts-technologischen Innovationen und Durchbrüchen korrespondiert der rasche Wandel der gegenwärtigen Lebensformen. Auf diese Herausforderungen antwortet die Philosophie mit der Suche nach interkulturellem Verstehen [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The problem of responsibility in moral philosophy has been lively debated in the last decades, especially since the publication of Harry Frankfurt's seminal paper, 'Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility' (1969). Compatibilists - also known as 'soft' determinists - and, on the other side, [...]

In diesem Gesamtkurs seiner Philosophie bringt Johannes Heinrichs die Essenz seiner bisherigen Bücher auf den Punkt - eine konsequente, reichhaltige und neuartige Systematik aus einem Guss, die vielen derzeitigen Moden trotzt.
Im erkenntnistheoretischen Einführungskapitel wird Reflexion [...]

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 [...]

'One', Aristotle says, can be said in many ways and each being is one. Through a comprehensive analysis of the passages in which Aristotle makes sense of these claims, the book provides a detailed account of how the different ways of being one permeate the domain of being and explores Aristotle's [...]

Der Begriff des Kontinuums nimmt nicht nur eine zentrale Stellung in Bernard Bolzanos mathematischem und naturphilosophischem Denken ein, sondern ist auch ein Meilenstein in der Entwicklung der modernen Mathematik. Dennoch gibt es unterschiedliche Meinungen darüber, ob Bolzano in seinem Werk [...]