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Em seu tratado sobre a hipóstase cognitiva (V.3), Plotino tem por objeto de investigação a fundamentação do autoconhecimento do Intelecto (Nous) como garantia da empresa ontoepistemológica.
Robert Brenner Barreto da Silva
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Aristotle, Empedocles, and the Reception of the Four Elements Hypothesis [PDF]
In this paper I discuss the meaning and significance of Aristotle’s claim that Empedocles “was the first to speak of the four so-called elements of the material kind” (Metaph. I.4, 985a32).
Crowley, Timothy J.
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Doric features in Empedocles' poetry?
This article asks whether Empedocles actually made use of his vernacular (a variety of Doric spoken at Acragas) in his lines, as it has been suggested by some modern scholars. Yet, a survey of these alleged Doric forms (D 73, 233-234; 247-248 Laks-Most
Ilaria Andolfi
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As relações entre Poesia didática e Filosofia. Hesíodo, Parmênides e Empédocles
O projeto do presente trabalho consiste em recuperar certa função didática que verifica-se nos vínculos que podemos estabelecer entre poesia e filosofia. Em primeiro lugar, transitaremos por alguns tópicos que se encontram na função didática da poesia de
Maria Cecilia Colombani
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Cosmic Emotions; or, Why Is the Universe Joyful according to Plato’s Timaeus and Empedocles?
: Plato and Empedocles depict a universe that manifests beauty, goodness, reason, and bliss. This article aims to investigate why both philosophers felt it important to describe a cosmos that participates in a human emotion such as happiness.
Chiara Ferella
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Abstract The genus Kartalinia was described to accommodate a single, obscure species, Psoralea acaulis, based on its unique morphology and karyology. No concerted molecular phylogenetic studies were available for this species at the time, and therefore its phylogenetic position was uncertain.
Brian Du Preez +4 more
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The aim of this bachelor thesis is to demonstrate how were the presocratic philosophers thinking about the creation of the world. The first part is focused on a brief description of the life of Empedocles, as well as it defines main conceptions of the ...
Šteffl, Jan
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Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20
The present study attempts to show what influence a commentary can have on the formation of ideas about a preceding philosophical tradition. A case in point is Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics” and on fragments of Empedocles’ poem.
A. S. Afonasina
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The systematic placement of the South African Apoprogones hesperistis Hampson and southern South American Ona australis gen. et sp. n. has been controversial. Based on mitogenomes, phylogenomic data and morphological evidence, we classify both taxa to the moth family Apoprogonidae stat. rev., whose members lack abdominal hearing organs.
Pasi Sihvonen +10 more
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