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On recognizing the real: Beauty and affliction in Simone Weil

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 464-477, September 2025.
Abstract If the guiding question of ethics is “how should I live?,” then the guiding question of aesthetics might be “what is beauty?” For Simone Weil, these two questions have intertwined answers that turn on a like conceptual apparatus. Focussing on Weil's foremost ethical problem, the plight of the afflicted (malheur), this article offers an account
Christopher Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Institutions, history, antagonisms, and development: the contributions of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson

open access: yesThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 511-575, July 2025.
Abstract The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
Elias Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

Patient autonomy in the context of digital health

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 404-413, June 2025.
Abstract Digital health opens the door to a promising horizon where the combination of several sciences and the application of new technologies can improve health, hope and quality of life. However, it is essential to ensure that such advances are compatible with and respectful of the right to privacy, data protection, right to information and freedom ...
Salvador Tarodo Soria
wiley   +1 more source

A Euripides quote in the prologue to The Knights (Eq. 14–20)

open access: yesШаги
This article deals with the distribution of dialogue lines between two slaves in the prologue of Aristophanes’ The Knights. There is no agreement among editors which slave utters the quote from Euripides’ Hippolytus (Eur. Hipp.
G. S. Belikov
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Fonctions du mythe chez Eschyle

open access: yesKentron, 2001
Aeschylus assigns three functions to Myth :1. Myth (muthos), “story”, “fable”, provides the subject and the characters ;2. Myth brings the world and time to the stage ;3. Myth infers gods and gives meaning.
Bernard Deforge
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Irony, Tragedy, Deception

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 424-437, June 2025.
Abstract Two theories dominate the current debate over the nature of verbal irony: the pretence theory and the echoic theory. It is common ground in this debate that irony is sometimes both echoic and enacted through pretence; my concern here is with such cases.
Gregory Currie
wiley   +1 more source

The Aptness of Envy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 1, Page 330-340, January 2025.
Abstract Are demands for equality motivated by envy? Nietzsche, Freud, Hayek, and Nozick all thought so. Call this the Envy Objection. For egalitarians, the Envy Objection is meant to sting. Many egalitarians have tried to evade the Envy Objection. But should egalitarians be worried about envy?
Jordan David Thomas Walters
wiley   +1 more source

Il cacciatore e la preda. Perseo, Medusa e la metafora della caccia alla luce di un passo delle Forcidi di Eschilo

open access: yesOtium, 2016
Aeschylus,  in  a  fragmentary  passage  of  his  lost  tragedy  Phorkides, describes the moment in which  Perseus  «like a  boar (aschedoros)» goes  in  the gorgonian cavern.
Marco Giuman
doaj  

Relación entre teatro e iconografía : el tema de Orestes y las Erinias

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2007
Este artículo examina cómo la iconografía de las Erinias castigando al matricida Orestes puede estar inspirada por la representación de la tragedia Euménides y cómo la concepción de las Erinias para la obra teatral puede haber surgido de modelos ...
Mercedes Aguirre
doaj   +1 more source

Reconsidering Martin Heidegger on the modern university

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 49-72, January 2025.
Abstract Martin Heidegger's 1933 Freiburg University Rector's Address is normally considered in terms of the horrors of its association with National Socialism. This study re‐frames the debate about the Address by situating it in the context of the tradition of philosophical reflection upon the political and historical significance of the modern ...
Lee Ward
wiley   +1 more source

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