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Kínesis, 2020 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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The great Greek “charlatan”: Empedocles
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2022 This article revises the views about Empedocles of Akragas. Even contemporaries of the thinker were confronted with the question of whether he was a great sage or a charlatan.
Oleg V. Rudin
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Empedocles on the Inheritance of Parental Traits by Offspring
Philologia Classica, 2022 The paper deals with the embryological teaching of Empedocles, the ancient Greek philosopher from Acragas, who lived in the 5th century BC. The article is focused on the mechanisms by which children inherit their parents’ features in the doctrine of ...
A. Pimenova
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Cosmic Emotions; or, Why Is the Universe Joyful according to Plato’s Timaeus and Empedocles?
Aestimatio: 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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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.To establish and update the list of nesting sites in Sicily and its minor islands. To investigate the Sicilian distribution and nesting suitability using spatial distribution models (SDMs). Performing a gap analysis in a GIS environment considering the protected area network in Sicily.
Chiara Siddiolo +3 more
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As relações entre Poesia didática e Filosofia. Hesíodo, Parmênides e Empédocles
Heródoto, 2017 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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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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The four elements: living beings or inert matter? Plato’s Timaeus against Empedocles’s On nature
Journal of ancient philosophy. In this paper, I argue that Empedocles’s peculiar expression according to which the roots – living entities, each endowed with thought and desires – “are themselves” forces the reader to think of them not solely as the principles of generation, never ...
Federico Casella
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Sapiens ubique civis, 2021 This paper endeavours to demonstrate that certain strands of ancient and modern cosmological thought are not as dissimilar as one might initially believe.
David Preston
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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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