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Théorie poétique, vérité et représentation du divin chez Empédocle et Pindare
Empedocles understands the truth-value of lyric poetry as a form of mythical authority from which the lyric poets wished to distinguish themselves; as the nature of their conception of truth depends on the necessity of honoring an athlete, the lyric ...
Xavier Gheerbrant
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From Empedocles to Symbiogenetics: Lynn Margulis's revolutionary influence on evolutionary biology
As a primary expositor of the work of Lynn Margulis collaborating with her over thirty years on over thirty books and forty articles, scientific and popular, I attempt here to summarize her unique and lasting influence on evolutionary biology. Describing
D. Sagan
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Sobre o estatuto das formas de vida no legado de Empédocles, ou, sobre o amor
A proposta deste trabalho é pensar o estatuto das múltiplas formas devida no legado de Empédocles de Acragas, segundo a hipótese de que o apreço poético-filosófico que ele demonstra pelas espécies em vários grupos de versos, vincula-se ao princípio ...
I. Pereira
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Aristotle, Empedocles, and the Reception of the Four Elements Hypothesis
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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Empedocles θεός: The Poetics of Divinity in Empedocles and His Reception
This thesis provides a commentary on select fragments of Empedocles and looks forward to his reception in Latin poetry, especially epic—what Philip Hardie calls Empedoclean epos.
Speakman, Caleb Matthew
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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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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.
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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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Empedocles in the Herculaneum Papyri: An Update
With the exception of PStrasb Gr. inv. 1665-6, which contains the fragments of 74 lines belonging to the poem On Nature, all the papyri concerning Empedocles generally preserve either short quotations or references to his thought.
Giuliana Leone
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