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Solving the Socratic Problem—A Contribution from Medicine [PDF]
, 2018 This essay provides a medical theory that could clarify enigmas surrounding the historical Socrates. It offers textual evidence that Socrates had temporal lobe epilepsy and that its two types of seizure manifested as recurrent voices and peculiar ...
Muramoto, Osamu
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Eusébeia, Threskeía and religio: an ethymological analysis of three disputed terms
Linguistica, 1993 While extensive philological research work has made clear the usage and the semantics of the words £UO'E£tcx. (also 0£ocre£tcx.), 0p11crKEta and religio in Greek andl Roman literature, their prehistoric meaning, whence the later sense of these terms has
Hubert Petersmann
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Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato
Constellations, EarlyView.
Benjamin Hutchens
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Skeptical Fideism in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum [PDF]
, 2019 The work of Richard H. Popkin both introduced the concept of skeptical fideism and served to impressively document its importance in the philosophies of a diverse range of thinkers, including Montaigne, Pascal, Huet, and Bayle.
Ribeiro, Brian
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Sensing More in Ancient religion
Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2014 This essay uses three examples to demonstrate the importance of the physical senses for ancient Christianity. First, I consider the fifth century Christian historian Sozomen on the nature of ancient religion and its practices.
Susan Harvey
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Reincarnation in Plato and in the Christian Perspective
Peitho, 2015 The present study focuses on research about reincarnation in order to formulate some preliminary conclusions concerning various philosophical theories.
Michail Mantzanas
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