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Parmenides’ hodos dizēsios, Models, and the Emergence of to eon
Parmenides is widely credited with inventing the concept of to eon, “being” or “what‑is”; in this article, I argue that Parmenides’ use of the image and model of the hodos—of the “road”, “route”, or “journey”—played an important role in this invention. I
Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
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Renaissance of the Trinitarian: Erwin Schadel's Integral Perspective
Abstract Erwin Schadel (1946–2016), a central yet little‐known figure of the so‐called Bamberg School, developed a distinctive triadic ontology that deserves attention within the contemporary renaissance of Trinitarian thought. Drawing on Augustinian and Comenian sources, Schadel articulates a relational grammar of being through the categories of in ...
Matteo Raffaelli
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Two of the greatest interpreters of Parmenides, Giovanni Casertano and Franco Ferrari, have given opposite interpretations of the role of the character of Parmenides. For Ferrari, Parmenides would only be a critic of ideas, as he equates them with their
Giuseppe Mazzara
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Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics
ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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The Third Renaissance and the Pre-Socratic Parmenides in Russian Modernism and Avant-Garde
This article aims to reconstruct the reception of pre-Socratic philosophy, especially that of Parmenides, in Russian modernism and avant-garde literature.
Rainer Grübel
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Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Paradox of Ineffability
ABSTRACT Wittgenstein and Heidegger are often cited as the greatest philosophers of the 20th Century. However, they are often taken to be very different kinds of philosopher, foundational to very different kinds of philosophy. While Wittgenstein is listed as one of the founders of the analytic tradition, Heidegger is listed as one of the founders of ...
David Lindeman
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Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture
Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
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Plato gives two constrasting accounts of Zeno’s philosophical purposes in the Phaedrus and Parmenides. The Parmenides is more accurate in detail, and consequently it is more probable that Zeno intended to defend Parmenides’ teaching, as he is ...
Carlo M. Lucarini
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Diskursus"Keraguan Metodis " Dalam Pokok-Pokok Ajaran Al-Ghazali dan Rene Descrates
Membicarakan tentang hakikat ilmu pengetahuan dan kebenaran, kita memulainya dengan mengingat kembali "pertentangan" antar dua orang filsuf Yunani Parmenides dan Heraklitos.
Anwaruddin Harahap
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