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, 1991 This paper addresses the question of how we can understand reasoning in general and mathematical proofs in particular. It argues the need for a high-level understanding of proofs to complement the low-level understanding provided by Logic.
Bundy, Alan
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Aristotle on Self-Sufficiency, External Goods, and Contemplation [PDF]
, 2020 Aristotle tells us that contemplation is the most self-sufficient form of virtuous activity: we can contemplate alone, and with minimal resources, while moral virtues like courage require other individuals to be courageous towards, or courageous with ...
Gasser-Wingate, Marc
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The Formal Cause in the Posterior Analytics [PDF]
, 2016 I argue that Aristotle’s account of scientific demonstrations in the Posterior Analytics is centred upon formal causation, understood as a demonstration in terms of essence (and as innocent of the distinction between form and matter).
Sandstad, Petter
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Aristotle on Enduring Evils While Staying Happy [PDF]
, 2018 In what ways and how far does virtue shield someone against suffering evils? In other words, how do non-moral evils affect the lives of virtuous people and to what extent can someone endure evils while staying happy?
Jimenez, Marta
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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of CultureThe reception of Hadot’s work on the tradition of spiritual exercises among historians of medieval philosophy has rarely produced the results one might reasonably have expected.
Matteo Johannes Stettler
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A Conversation With Hans-georg Gadamer [PDF]
, 1990 By way of engagement with the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Heidegger, Lonergan, and neo-Thomism more broadly, Michael Baur and Gadamer discuss historicity, the Enlightenment and scientism, the epistemic implications of hylomorphism, and the ...
Baur, Michael
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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role of phronesis in Knowledge-Based Economy
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w NauceThe aim of this paper is to reflect on contemporary understanding of “knowledge” within the Knowledge-Based Economy. Since the pursuit of knowledge has been a longstanding focus of European culture since Greek philosophy, we employ the original ancient ...
Anna Ceglarska, Katarzyna Cymbranowicz
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FROM ARISTOTELIANISM TO EXISTENTIALISM: THE PROBLEM OF BEING [PDF]
, 2016 Being has been the central and dominating concept of twenty-five hundred years of Western philosophy. Ontology is the branch of metaphysics that concerns itself with the nature of being.
Sfekas, Stanley
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