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Linking perspectives: A role for poetry in philosophical inquiry

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, Volume 53, Issue 2-3, Page 305-318, April 2022., 2022
There is a long‐standing debate about whether poetry can make a substantive contribution to philosophy with compelling arguments to show that poetry and philosophy involve distinct modes of thought and aims, albeit with similar concerns. This paper argues that reading lyric poetry can play a substantive role in philosophy by helping the philosopher ...
Karen Simecek
wiley   +1 more source

Tuberculosis among Migrant Populations in Sicily: A Field Report

open access: yesJournal of Tropical Medicine, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
Background. In the EU, tuberculosis (TB) mainly affects vulnerable people, including migrants. From 2014 to 2017, we have estimated the frequency of both tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among the migrant population hosted in 41 reception centers in western Sicily (ITaCA network). Materials and Methods.
Tullio Prestileo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

EMPEDOCLES’ COSMOLOGY AND ITS SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT

open access: yesДокса, 2016
The topic of the article is reconstruction of the correlation between cosmos and harmony in Empedocles’ cosmology, as well as the analogy between the pattern of cosmic periods and the changes of socio-cultural circumstances in Sicily at the end of 6th ...
Іван Михальчук
doaj   +1 more source

The Ideas of Pseudo-Empedocles in Baghdad Mysticism of the Ninth-Tenth Centuries CE: Al-Ḥallāj’s Cosmology

open access: yesMedieval Worlds, 2023
This paper looks at the cosmological texts of the eminent Sufi al-Ḥusayn b. Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj (d. 309 AH/922 CE) through the prism of pseudo-Empedocles’s influence.
P. Basharin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A filosofia da natureza dos pré-socráticos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Este artigo faz uma revisão conceitual dos principais elementos relacionados com as filosofias naturais dos chamados filósofos Pré-Socráticos, as quais prosperaram no período compreendido entre os séculos VII a.C. e V a.C.
Polito, Antony Marco Mota   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Die plek van Empedokles in die metafisies-mistieke tradisie

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2007
The place of Empedocles in metaphysical-mystical tradition This article argues that Empedocles was more than a pre-Socratic philosopher. His thinking was also essentially mystical and should be situated on a large map of metaphysical-mystical ...
J. S. Krüger
doaj   +1 more source

Mysterious filmy veils: Empedocles on vision

open access: yesΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, 2023
It is quite fair to consider Empedocles as one of the first naturalists. Many of his fragments describe the parts of animals, their composition, functions and origin.
A. Afonasina
semanticscholar   +1 more source

El origen de la idea de vacío en Grecia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Entre los numerosos conceptos de los que somos, de alguna medida, tributarios de Grecia, creemos que merece una atención especial, sobre todo en un contexto de investigación filosófica, el concepto de «vacio». Por ello, pretendo con este articulo ofrecer
Megino Rodríguez, Carlos
core   +4 more sources

L’âme du monde : Platon, Anaxagore, Empédocle

open access: yesÉtudes Platoniciennes, 2014
Was there an antecedent to Plato’s concept of the World Soul in the writings of the Presocratics? Given the scarcity of our evidence, it is safer to narrow the question down: Does Plato himself point to such an antecedent?
Filip Karfík
doaj   +1 more source

Empedocles the Wandering Daimōn and Trusting in Mad Strife

open access: yesPhronesis, 2022
This article argues that Empedocles’ trust in Strife (DK31 B115.14 = LM22 D10.14) is not, as the prevailing interpretation has it, only a past misjudgement and failure.
S. Tor
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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