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, 2017 An aporia posed by Theophrastus prompts Priscian to describe the process by which perception formally assimilates to its object as a progressive perfection. I present an interpretation of Priscian’s account of perception’s progressive perfection.
Kalderon, Mark Eli
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Eternity and Print How Medieval Ideas of Time Influenced the Development of Mechanical Reproduction of Texts and Images [PDF]
, 2020 The methods of intellectual history have not yet been applied to studying the invention of technology for printing texts and images ca. 1375–ca. 1450. One of the several conceptual developments in this period refl ecting the
Gilbert, Bennett
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Chaldean and Neo-Platonic Theology [PDF]
, 2016 In the present paper, the meanings the term “Chaldeans” acquired during the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are presented, but mainly the role the Chaldean Oracles played inside the movement of Neo-Platonism is emphasized. The stratification of Being
Viglas, Katelis
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Methods in examining Sense-perception : John Philoponus and Ps.-Simplicius [PDF]
, 2008 Le présent texte discute les méthodes utilisées par Philopon et Pseudo-Simplicius lorsqu’ils commentent la théorie de la perception sensible d’Aristote, et il marque leurs différences.
Lautner, Peter
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Le fragment 43 (des Places) de Numénius : problèmes de présentation, essais d’interprétation
Études Platoniciennes, 2013 The presentation of the fragments and testimonies about Numenius' thought is a real challenge for the editors. The order in which the texts are presented is decisive as far as the image of the philosopher they want to give to the reader is concerned.
Fabienne Jourdan
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Al-Fārābi on the Role of Philosophy of History in the History of Civilization [PDF]
, 2018 This volume constitutes an attempt at bringing together philosophies of time—or more precisely, philosophies on time and, in a concomitant way, history—emerging from Christianity’s and Islam’s intellectual histories.
Steiris, Georgios
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One aspect of the methodology of cognition in Plato and Dionysius the Areopagite [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2008 Petr Moiseev (Perm State Institute of Arts and Culture)shows how the concept of ascension to truth, first formulated by Plato, was later reworked and reevaluated in new cognitive context by such later thinkers, as Plutarch, Iamblichus and, finally ...
Moiseev, Petr
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Ars vitae in Iamblichus and in the Stoic Seneca [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2010 Seneca expounds a theory of therapy and teaching with the ultimate goal of self knowledge and wisdom. Some of his techniques are based on Pythagorean principles or derive ideas from them, among them the focused and constant ascesis of self control ...
Eliopoulos, Panos
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What is the smallest prime? [PDF]
, 2012 What is the first prime? It seems that the number two should be the obvious answer, and today it is, but it was not always so. There were times when and mathematicians for whom the numbers one and three were acceptable answers.
Caldwell, Chris K., Xiong, Yeng
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Could Iamblichus help us to understand one ancient relief? [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2015 Describing Pythagoras’ activities in Croton Iamblichus summarizes the content of his public speeches addressed to young men, to the Thousand who governed the city, as well as children and women of Croton.
Afonasina, Anna
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