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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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Education towards a reasonable humanism
Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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Alcibiades’ speech in the Symposium and its origins
The chapter relates Alcibiades's speech in the Symposium to the dialogue Alcibiades I. I believe, the encomium on Socrates in the Symposium should be interpreted together with the Alcibiades I.
Jirsa, Jakub
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Rediscovering the Alcibiades Major
It is a well-known fact that Kant used the lament of the Trojan queen, Hecuba, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to describe the fate of metaphysics. But these words could equally be used to describe the peculiar fate of the Alcibiades Major.
Samuel Oliveira +1 more
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Abstract Platonic arguments often have premises of a particular form which is misunderstood. These sentences look like universal generalizations, but in fact involve an implicit qua phrase which makes them a fundamentally different kind of predication.
Rachel Barney
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Réplica de Alcibiades Arguello en un pleito por tierras
Documento en el que el abogado Alcibiades Arguello responde a los argumentos publicados en el folleto "Contestamos" de autoría de Isaías Cepeda y Carlos J.
Arguello, Alcibiades
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Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory
Abstract Democratic theory tells us that citizens should be engaged, informed, passionate, reasonable, willing to speak up, ready to listen, and militant but also restrained. Yet we are rarely told how they might achieve this. The challenge is particularly relevant for theories that distinguish between the liberal and democratic principles of our ...
Eno Trimçev
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Abstract Leading philosophical models of curiosity represent it as a desiderative attitude whose content is a question, and which is satisfied by knowledge of the answer to that question. I argue that these models do not capture the distinctive character of a form of curiosity that I call 'erotic curiosity'.
Daniela Dover
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Revisited Alcibiades: a portrait and an interpretation
O texto apresenta uma interpretação do conto “Uma visita de Alcibíades”, de Machado de Assis. Considerando que a biografia de Alcibíades, elaborada por Plutarco, é a fonte de inspiração para o autor brasileiro, busca estabelecer as relações entre os ...
Eunice Terezinha Piazza Gai
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