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Stoïcisme et jugement littéraire au Ier siècle avant J.-C. : le témoignage de Denys d’Halicarnasse

Aitia, 2011
Integrated into the circle of the Aelii Tuberones, a Roman family of Stoic inclinations, the historian and rhetorician Dionysius of Halicarnassus was very familiar with theories of Stoicism : in fact, the Stoic theories about language were of high ...
Mélina Lévy-Makinson
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Philosophy and biography

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 328-337, July 2024.
Abstract Does the biography of a philosopher have any relevance to assessing their philosophy? After considering and rejecting three distinct treatments of this question, a different answer is articulated here. Distinguishing between the content and approach of a philosophical text, this article argues that biography is relevant to assessing the ...
Paul O'Grady
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Decoloniality and the Spectre of Modernity: Notes for a Theoretical Critique

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 251-262, June 2024.
This article examines a thesis that has become a common currency in Latin American critical thought, namely that ‘coloniality’ is constitutive of modernity. This proposition rests on a reifying conception of modernity as a Eurocentric civilisational project which, I contend, is theoretically flawed and politically pernicious.
Julián Harruch
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Dediscoursification: a discourse-ethical critique of discursive production of the state of war

Političke Perspektive, 2016
This essay briefly presents the theory of dediscoursification as a theory of one of the major causes of war. Its key claim reads that discursive attitudes, such as lying, self-contradicting, and promise-breaking, ought to be theorized as causes directly ...
Dražen Pehar
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American Communist Idealism in George Cram Cook’s The Athenian Women (1918)

Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca, 2018
The Athenian Women, written by the American George Cram Cook with input from Susan Glaspell, is a serious, substantial play drawing chiefly on Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae. It premiered on March 1st 1918 with the Provincetown Players.
Edith Hall
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Do the Weak Have a Right to Fight the Strong? Moral Absolutes and the Probability of Success

Studia Philosophiae Christianae
The jus ad bellum requirement of the probability of success can be perceived as an unjust requirement which prohibits the weaker side of a potential or actual military conflict from committing itself to organized violence, even to defend and protect its ...
Stipe Buzar
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L’impero del mare come egemonia subalterna nel IV secolo (Diodoro, libri XIV-XV)

Historika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana, 2016
In two passages of book XIV Diodorus emphasizes the recognized hegemony exercised by Sparta both on land and sea after the Peloponnesian War (XIV 10 and 13).
Cinzia Bearzot
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Ch. 2. Insults and Humiliations in Fifth-Century Historiography and Comedy

Histos, 2017
Herodotos, Thoukydides, and Xenophon, in that descending order, include anecdotal descriptions of systematic humiliation through verbal and nonverbal digs and insults.
Donald Lateiner
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El diálogo de Melos. Desde la interpretación de Nietzsche hacia la visión trágica de Tucídides

Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía
This work analyses the famous and “terrible” dialogue that Thucydides presents in his History of the Peloponnesian War between the Athenians and the Melians and seeks to highlight elements that would show a tragic vision of history and human affairs on ...
Diego Colomés
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The Peloponnesian War, the Spanish Requirement and the Clash of Civilizations: An Application of Plato's Theaetetus

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2008
This paper challenges the notion of “civilization” as focal to, and originative of, the problem of suffering in the world, a legacy that continues to betray its heritage in the third millennium of the Common Era. The current global crisis of terrorism is,
Wendy C. Hamblet
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