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The young Leibniz's tentative acceptance of physical occasionalism
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 486-500, December 2024.Abstract In this article, I revisit Leibniz's early views on physical causation, more specifically, his relation to physical occasionalism focusing on the period from 1668 to 1676. An in‐depth analysis of the Confession of Nature against the Atheists taken together with the Catholic Demonstrations, Leibniz's correspondence with Jakob Thomasius from ...
Christian Henkel
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Vestígios da cosmologia de Empédocles em fontes latinas dos séculos XII-XIII [PDF]
, 2016 O propósito deste artigo é analisar a expressão que assegura a presença de partes da cosmologia de Empédocles no Ocidente latino nos séculos XII-XIII, qual seja, creatio mundi, esta que é a tradução do termo κοσμοποιία.
Santos, Evaniel Brás dos
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Philia and neikos in Keats’s 'Song of four faeries'
Literator, 2007 Despite the fact that Keats’s “Song of four faeries” received very little critical attention, the poem raises interesting issues regarding the creative and destructive forces in nature.
A.C. Swanepoel
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ChemPlusChem, Volume 89, Issue 7, July 2024.The alchemical symbols for metals, acids, bases and salts were still in everyday use in much of the 18th century. The modern notation, which we use today, is due to Berzelius, but the transition was long and arduous and took place between ca. 1775 and 1820 roughly simultaneously with but distinct from the Chemical Revolution.
Curt Wentrup
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Vestígios da cosmologia de Empédocles em fontes latinas dos séculos XII-XIII
, 2017 O propósito deste artigo é analisar a expressão que assegura a presença de partes da cosmologia de Empédocles no Ocidente latino nos séculos XII-XIII, qual seja, creatione mundi, esta que é a tradução do termo κοσμοποιίᾳ. A análise centra-se, por um lado,
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Aristotle's tyche (τύχη) and contemporary debates about luck
Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 401-414, July 2024.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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As noções de amor (philia) e discórdia (neikos) nos fragmentos de Empédocles [PDF]
, 2010 A chamada Filosofia Pré-Socrática inaugurou a História da Filosofia no Ocidente. Entre estes primeiros filósofos, comodamente inseridos na ampla denominação Pré-Socráticos que não deve ser compreendida em sentido estritamente histórico, uma vez que ...
Izabela Silva Cabral
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Empedocles and the Other Physiologists in Aristotle’s Physics II 8
Peitho, 2016 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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Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 185-193, June 2026.
Benjamin Hutchens
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.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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