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. [...]

Im ersten der drei Teile des Buches wird die 'welt-bürgerliche' Spielart der Phänomenologie eingeführt und eine frei an Edmund Husserl und Martin Heidegger anknüpfende Antwort auf die Frage nach den Bedingungen interkultureller Verständigung entworfen. Der Mittelteil, das Zentrum des Buches, enthält [...]

Band 9 der Schriftenreihe Beiträge zur Angewandten Ethik versammelt Arbeiten zu aktuellen Problemen sowie zu Grundlagenfragen der Medizinischen Ethik. Es handelt sich dabei zum Teil um Beiträge zu wissenschaftlichen Symposien, die das Interuniversitäre Institut für Angewandte Ethik in den [...]

Euthydemus was for a long time and until quite recently a neglected dialogue of Plato, almost by common accord treated as a motley collection of barely disguised sophistic fallacies. This book shows not only that the dialogue is to be taken seriously, but also that it is, in fact, a very [...]

Medizin und Politik sind Mächte, Systeme, Apparate. Sie haben ihre Logik und ihre Zwänge, denen ein einzelner Mensch nur wenig entgegenzusetzen hat. Die Interessen des Individuums gegenüber allen gesellschaftlichen Zwängen zu wahren: das ist im demokratischen Staat wesentlich die Aufgabe und der [...]

Con questo lavoro sui problemi del movimento e dell'infinito nel terzo libro della Fisica aristotelica, Giovanna R. Giardina fa seguito ai precedenti commenti dedicati al libro I (questione dei principi) nel 2002, e al libro II (questione delle cause) nel 2006. Ho parlato di commenti perché [...]

It was in ancient Greek philosophy where the idea arose that there is a supreme law before which any civil law created by human societies has to be justified. Since then the concept of natural law not only remained one of the paradigms of Western civilization but has shaped the development of [...]

In the Timaeus and Critias, Plato interweaves two narrative lines: the demiurge's making of the cosmos with the victory of archaic Athens against Atlantis. The aim of this book is to investigate the relationship between the narrative practice of both accounts and the theoretical [...]

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 [...]

Nella fiorente Smirne dei primi due secoli della nostra era, Teone (fl. 125 d.C.) fu maestro di Platonismo ed esegeta del testo di Platone. L'unica sua opera a noi tràdita, l'Expositio, è una testimonianza ampia e importante per cogliere non solo l'approccio di un filosofo medioplatonico alle [...]

During the Sixties and Seventies of the last century, the word 'utopia' acquired a positive connotation spurred on by the sudden emergence of the third world, the Marxist liberation movements and the decolonization of Africa and Asia, in so far as these processes were interpreted in Marxist terms [...]

Is it possible for law to squeeze out values, since the nihilism towards values leads towards the rejection of the major role of the law, which is the protection and realization of values? Does the legal norm, as the part of law turned into the command, really have for its goal to establish the [...]

I saggi raccolti in questo volume assumono ad oggetto la riflessione che nel mondo antico - da Omero a Filone di Alessandria, passando per i Sofisti, Platone, Aristotele, Posidonio, Lucrezio - si è sviluppata attorno all'origine della civiltà umana e delle forme culturali. La persistenza di questo [...]

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 [...]

The concept of the soul, one of the greatest 'inventions' of Greek philosophy, which crossed the whole history of the Western civilisation, was defined in its fundamental philosophical features by Plato. Developing the numerous issues naturally linked to this concept, Plato's thought does not only [...]

Le Théétète pose la question de la connaissance, propose trois définitions, les réfute toutes trois. Devant cette apparente aporie, les commentateurs s'interrogent sur l'intention de Platon : abandonne-t-il la théorie des Formes ou décide-t-il de la refonder ? Cette alternative, en partie [...]

Spesso si è sostenuto che sia la nozione di infinito a causare la paradossalità degli argomenti zenoniani. Barnes, al contrario, ritiene che in essa non ci sia nulla di incoerente o complicato. Il concetto di infinito non è difficile, tecnico o paradossale, perché non è altro che assenza di limiti [...]

Volume IV.A contains the first part of Refectio. It publishes the first ever attempt at a full scale reconstruction of Heraclitus' book out of the ca. 200 fragments and ca. 50 unparalleled opinions attributed to him in all the Ancient and Medieval sources that have come down to us on his treatise [...]

Joseph M. Bocheński (1902-1995) gehörte zu den großen Gestalten der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er war nicht nur in der internationalen Gemeinschaft wissenschaftlicher Fachphilosophen hochangesehen, sondern verstand es auch, philosophische Ideen öffentlichkeitswirksam zu vertreten und ihre [...]

Este libro examina la teoría del azar de Aristóteles, presentada en Phys. II 4-6, en el contexto de la discusión de los principios y causas de la filosofía natural. Teniendo siempre en vista este contexto, la autora elabora una interpretación de la definición genérica de azar como un cierto [...]

Kann man den Charakter eines Volkes bestimmen? Nikolaj Losskij (1870 - 1965) bejaht diese Frage unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen, und heutige russische Autoren berufen sich auf ihn, wenn sie die Besonderheit Russlands betonen. Nicht allein deshalb behält Losskijs völkerpsychologische Studie ihre [...]