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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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The Value of Time for Daharis [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2014 Dahar’ is the Arabic word for time and means age or eon. The term ‘Dahari’ was coined by Arabs, near the end of the Sassanid era, to refer to the followers of Zorvanism.
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Relaciones entre Poesía didáctica y Filosofía. Hesíodo, Parménides y Empédocles
Heródoto, 2017 El proyecto del presente trabajo consiste en recuperar cierta función didáctica que parece darse en los vínculos que podemos establecer entre poesía y filosofía.
Maria Cecilia Colombani
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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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Des racines empédocléennes chez Platon ?
Études Platoniciennes, 2014 The way Plato constructs his concept of psukhè appears to be inscribed in a controversy against Empedocles. A plethora of echoes to the agrigentine poem can be read in the Timaeus, the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, such as references to the harmonic summetria
Anne-Laure Therme
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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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The Nobel history of computational chemistry. A personal perspective
Journal of Computational Chemistry, Volume 45, Issue 22, Page 1921-1935, August 15, 2024.
Russell J. Boyd
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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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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2003 Matthew Arnold’s aesthetic and philosophical relationship to Romanticism has been complex, ambivalent and fairly well explored. But his perhaps more important connection to modern existential thought is simultaneously less problematic and less known ...
Robert Carballo
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Empedocles: Divinization and Suicide [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2007 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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