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Kenelm Digby's logic of common and natural notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 157-173, June 2025.Abstract In this article, I take a fresh look at the logic of common and natural notions contained in the Two Treatises published in 1644 by Kenelm Digby (1603–1665). Digby's doctrine of common notions was an attempt to retrofit Aristotelianism in order to bring it out of the shadows of scholasticism and into the age of the new experimental and ...
Mogens Lærke
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Happiness and well‐being: Is it all in your head? Evidence from the folk
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 234-268, March 2025.Abstract Despite a voluminous literature on happiness and well‐being, debates have been stunted by persistent dissensus on what exactly the subject matter is. Commentators frequently appeal to intuitions about the nature of happiness or well‐being, raising the question of how representative those intuitions are.
Markus Kneer, Daniel M. Haybron
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Plutarque juge et partie : à propos des débats entre l’Académie, le Jardin et le Portique
Aitia, 2013 In this article I show:(1) Plutarch’s inclusion of Heraclitus among the list of Presocratics at Adv. Col. 1121E-1122A should lead us to conclude that this philosopher was included by the New Academy among those ...
Carlos Lévy
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Lucrèce sur les origines et le développement des arts et des métiers
Aitia, 2020 Lucretius’ story of the stages of human development from the primitive condition of the first men to our own era occupies a substantial part of the fifth chant of DRN (925-1457).
Voula Tsouna
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Epicurus and Aesthetic Disinterestedness [PDF]
, 2017 : Aesthetic disinterestedness is one of the central concepts in aesthetics, and Jerome Stolnitz, the most prominent theorist of disinterestedness in the 20th century, has claimed that (i) ancient thinkers engagement with this notion was cursory and ...
Aiste, Celkyte
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Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2025.ABSTRACT As regards alternative agricultural practices today, it is worth noticing the increase in the use of animal traction (AT) in France. Yet, the reasons for this reappropriation remain unclear. The life paths and motivations of users are the focus of this article. The study is based on 33 qualitative interviews with French farmers. It uses Gasson'
Maurice Miara +3 more
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Plutarch's Adversus Colotem and the Cyrenaics: 1120C-1121E
Aitia, 2013 A reading of Plutarch’s Adversus Colotem, 1120C-1121E, with reference to other surviving evidence for Cyrenaic epistemology. In particular, the discussion evaluates two claims made by Plutarch: (1) that Colotes is right to argue ...
James Warren
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Seneca’s philosophical predecessors and contemporaries [PDF]
, 2013 This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies.
Sellars, John
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Citizen Skeptic: Cicero’s Academic Republicanism [PDF]
, 2015 The skeptical challenge to politics is that if knowledge is in short supply and it is a condition for the proper use of political power, then there is very little just politics.
Aikin, Scott
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Subjectivity and the “Shocking”: Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and Ethical Limits of Pleasure
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2016 The article analyzes the “shocking” and so-called “immoral” as a response to the institution-imposed methods of surveillance. This leads to initiation of discourses over behavior or actions which may not be unethical but which may be questionable in ...
Ashmita Mukherjee
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