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Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos: Número 54 - junio 1954 [PDF]
Copia digital.
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Aristotle's tyche (τύχη) and contemporary debates about luck
Abstract This paper proposes an interpretation of Aristotle's understanding of tyche (τύχη), a Greek term that can be alternatively translated as luck, fortune, or fate. The paper disentangles various threads of argument in the primary sources to argue for a realist understanding of what we moderns call “luck.” In short, it contends that Aristotle's ...
Louis Groarke
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Empedocles and the Other Physiologists in Aristotle’s Physics II 8
In this paper I propose to show: 1) that in Phys. II 8 Aristotle takes Empedocles as a paradigm for a theoretical position common to all philosophers who preceded him: the view that materialism implies a mechanistic explanation of natural becoming; and 2)
Giovanna R. Giardina
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De la imitación de los modelos a la aemulatio: la revisión del canon en las ninfas de Francisco Umbral [PDF]
El joven escritor-protagonista de Las ninfas (1976) de Francisco Umbral (Madrid, 1935), en el arduo sendero a fin de buscar su plena identidad, ofrece una interesante relación de auctores canónicos, a modo de atractivo Parnaso, desde la Antigüedad ...
Escobar Borrego, Francisco Javier
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Anadyoméni de Grigorios Xénopoulos
Xenopoulos’ novel Anadyomeni presents a dense network of literary, philosophical and liturgical references to meals, which set the stage for the enactment of the discussion, in Plato’s Symposium, about immortality and giving one’s life for one’s lover ...
Gunnar De Boel
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Empedocles: Divinization and Suicide [PDF]
In his article on Empedocles Sergej Anavesov of Tomsk State University presents a part of his bigger study in the philosophy of suicide, and shows that Empedocles’ famous deed can be understood as an act of “metaphysical revolt”, a mysterious ...
Avanesov, Sergey
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Héroe trágico, nociones de catarsis y de destino en tres textos teóricos de Friedrich Hölderlin
En el siguiente artículo analizaré en primer lugar cómo Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) se distancia de la Poética de Aristóteles al proponer la figura del héroe trágico como fundamento de la tragedia en Grund zum Empedokles [Fundamento para el ...
David Eduardo Alvarado Archila
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El libro de Mario Elkin Ramírez* (2009) es de sumo interés. Compara las figuras de Empédocles y Edipo e introduce un paralelismo entre la concepción filosófica de Empédocles y aquella que está en la base del Edipo Rey de Sófocles.
Silvia Ons
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Plutarque contre Colotès contre Empédocle
In the section of Against Colotes dedicated to the polemic that the Epicurean, in his writing, developed against Empedocles, Plutarch uses what he considers a bad procedure to traverse the area of dialectic and to arrive at that ...
Alain Gigandet
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