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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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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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Justification of ethical vegetarianism in empedocles' philosophy.
, 2022 It seems that today plant-based diets, such as vegetarianism and veganism are spreading faster than ever before. Not understanding the foundation for such choice people differing in their habits tend to mock those who refuse to eat meat and other animal ...
Petrikas, Adomas,
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Lucretius, Empedocles, and Cleanthes [PDF]
, 2014 Lucretius is so well known to be an Epicurean poet that it may seem pointless to investigate his philosophical influences. The situation should be straightforward, but many un-Epicurean influences have been noticed in De rerum natura, and there has ...
Campbell, Gordon
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Cosmic Democracy or Cosmic Monarchy? Empedocles in Plato’s Statesman [PDF]
, 2018 Plato’s references to Empedocles in the myth of the Statesman perform a crucial role in the overarching political argument of the dialogue. Empedocles conceives of the cosmos as structured like a democracy, where the constituent powers ‘rule in turn ...
Coates, Cameron F.
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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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, 2020 This paper analyses Empedocles’ contribution to Sicilian politics as described by the ancient sources cited by Diogenes Laertius. It offers a close analysis of a bizarre anecdote by Timaeus (FGrHist 566 F 134), where Empedocles got rid of a potential ...
Andolfi, Ilaria
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Études Platoniciennes: The aim of this article is to elucidate an allusion to the epistemology of Empedocles in the passage from the central myth of the Phaedrus in which Plato describes the physiological symptoms experienced by the lover when he sees his beloved and the ...
Emma Ponce
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