This comprehensive study of Melissus of Samos, centred on the 2012 Eleatic Lectures of Jaap Mansfeld (Utrecht University), is the first in more than forty years.
Mansfeld argues that Melissus presents us with an efficacious and comprehensible revision of the ontological arguments of Parmenides or, [...]

How many different ways there are to construct a construction of law? All the different pillars that hold the construction of law must be based on faith and reason in order for the construction to be preserved. Observation of the pillars of law from the level of faith and reason gives us a valid [...]

The interdisciplinary approach in determining human rights arises because of the nature of human rights which are not only a legal phenomenon, but the phenomenon of other sciences. Such an approach of human rights will enable us to determine the roots of human rights, their structure and content, as [...]

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, [...]

Questo libro di Ivan Adriano Licciardi su Parmenide nel Commento alla Fisica di Simplicio colma una vistosa e per certi aspetti paradossale lacuna negli studi sul Neoplatonismo: sebbene Simplicio (VI sec. d.C.) rappresenti una delle fonti più importanti per la ricostruzione del poema di [...]

The twenty-three essays pay tribute to the outstanding work of Francisco Lisi. The variety of their topics, methods and approaches reflects the wide scope of Lisi's own scientific interest; their linguistic diversity (the volume comprises contributions in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish [...]

Der vorliegende Band bietet die erste umfassende Rekonstruktion von Bolzanos Lehre in Form einer axiomatischen Theorie.
Bernard Bolzanos Theorie von Grund und Folge fand in der Bolzano-Forschung lange nicht die ihr gebührende Beachtung. Das Interesse an dieser für Bolzanos Philosophie [...]

The articles in this volume are a selection of the papers presented at the Tenth Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society held at Pisa in July 2013, under the auspices of the University of Pisa, the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, and the President of the [...]

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. [...]

This volume is dedicated to culturally different ways of the exposition, reconstruction, and reformulation of a whole range of classical philosophical issues: Ethics and theology, cultural particularity and humanistic universality, man and nature, heaven and earth, Eastern and Western values, [...]

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' [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Was die Bioethik dem Menschen zu sagen hat, das muss sie ihm in der entscheidenden und nachhaltigsten Hinsicht sagen, solange er noch jung ist, solange er noch offen ist für Weichenstellungen, die sein Leben prägen werden, weil er sich das Fragen nach dem Sinn und Ziel seines Lebensweges noch nicht [...]

Aus dem Inhalt:
Edition: Burkhard Mojsisch, Klaus J. Schmidt: Ein neu entdeckter Hegel-Brief vom 18. März 1826 - Aufsätze: Hans-Martin Sass: An early Hegelian Vision of the Internet. Ernst Kapp's 1845 Philosophy of cultivating space and time - Georg Werckmeister: Dreieck und Begriff - Gilles [...]

Dem 'Natürlichen' liegt kein Code, kein Programm, kein System und kein 'Design' zugrunde, woraus sich die Eigenart und die Strebungen der ihr zugehörigen Wesen erklären und damit ableiten lassen. Die Natur ist kein Artefakt, sondern das Gegenteil alles Künstlichen. Das Natürliche zeigt sich im [...]

'Harry Stottelmeiers Entdeckung' ist eine philosophische Geschichte für junge Menschen ab 10 Jahren. Es ist das meistverbreitete Buch auf dem Gebiet der Kinderphilosophie und bildet den Grundkurs, um Kinder in die elementare Logik einzuführen. Dennoch ist es kein philosophischer Text. Es ist einfach [...]

The Ancient and Middle Stoics share with the Presocratics the ill fortune of having had their work lost. There is, however, an enourmous amount of fragments and reports that have come down to us from contemporary or later philosophers and writers with an interest in philosophy (such as Alexander of [...]

This book contains a collection of essays co-authored by Edgar Morscher and Peter Simons. The themes of the essays range from questions of the objectivity of truth-bearers and truth-makers to Meinong's object theory and semantics, from the history and foundations of free logic to situation [...]

This collection features the revised versions of the papers presented at 'Socratica III - a conference on Socrates, the Socratics, and the ancient Socratic literature' held in Trento.

This conference is the latest of a series of Socratica symposia, previously held in Senigallia (2005) and Naples [...]

Since antiquity Sparta has been seen as the source of inspiration for Plato's political projects which he described in his major dialogues, the Republic and the Laws. Nevertheless an attentive reading of the dialogues shows a more complex picture, which expresses Plato's more [...]

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, [...]

Gli studi raccolti in questo volume, pubblicati da Anna Maria Ioppolo nell'arco di circa trent'anni, costituiscono una tappa importante nelle ricerche recenti sul pensiero antico. La loro genesi si inquadra nella rinascita di interesse per le filosofie ellenistiche che si ebbe negli anni '80 del [...]

The title of this volume alludes to Phaedrus 255d, where Socrates says that the lover is, as it were, the mirror in which the beloved beholds himself. Mirrors provide a chance to overcome some of the natural limitations of vision - and in particular they enable us to see that which otherwise [...]

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 [...]

Parmenide è davvero quel filosofo speculativo quale è stato presentato nella tradizione filosofica occidentale? Se si abbandonano i pre-supposti 'filosofici' che guidano le interpretazioni moderne e si legge il poema come l'autore stesso lo descrive, una rivelazione divina, con tutto ciò che questo [...]

Dieser Band bietet einerseits eine Einführung in die Zielsetzungen sowie inhaltlichen und methodischen Grundlagen der Angewandten Ethik und anderseits einen Überblick über deren Aufgaben und Teilgebiete.

Die Angewandte Ethik hat sich in den letzten dreißig Jahren zu einem selbständigen akademischen [...]

This volume comprises a selection of the articles delivered at the Ninth Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society, held in Tokyo. The articles cover a variety of chief issues raised in Plato's Politeia (Republic), including philology, ethics, political philosophy, psychology, [...]

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, [...]

Il platonismo è l'esclusivo 'sfondo' teoretico della cultura filosofica di lingua latina tra il IV secolo e il XII, 'scenario' che comprende, e si confonde con, gli elementi aristotelici, stoici e neopitagorici che le fonti del pensiero medievale trasmettono agli ambienti colti latini secondo le [...]

The present collection brings together some of the papers presented at the international congress Religión en Utopía (Religion in Utopia), held at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, under the auspices of the Instituto de Estudios Clásicos sobre la Sociedad y la Política 'Lucio Anneo [...]

This volume presents the English translation of a selection of 15 essays out of the 82 comprised in the seven-volume commentary on Plato's Republic, edited by Mario Vegetti and published by Bibliopolis (Naples).

1. Thrasymachus (M. Vegetti, Univ. di Pavia)
2. Poetry: paideia and mimesis (S. [...]