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Solving the Socratic Problem—A Contribution from Medicine [PDF]

, 2018
This essay provides a medical theory that could clarify enigmas surrounding the historical Socrates. It offers textual evidence that Socrates had temporal lobe epilepsy and that its two types of seizure manifested as recurrent voices and peculiar ...
Muramoto, Osamu
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On recognizing the real: Beauty and affliction in Simone Weil

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 464-477, September 2025.
Abstract If the guiding question of ethics is “how should I live?,” then the guiding question of aesthetics might be “what is beauty?” For Simone Weil, these two questions have intertwined answers that turn on a like conceptual apparatus. Focussing on Weil's foremost ethical problem, the plight of the afflicted (malheur), this article offers an account
Christopher Thomas
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The Unity of the Soul in Plato's Republic [PDF]

, 2012
This essay argues that Plato in the Republic needs an account of why and how the three distinct parts of the soul are parts of one soul, and it draws on the Phaedrus and Gorgias to develop an account of compositional unity that fits what is said in the ...
Brown, Eric
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Telling Phaedrus' fables to children. A cruel language? A linguistic analysis in Italian books

The Journal of Classics Teaching
Teaching classical culture to children can be done through literature and Phaedrus' fables. There are several books on the market that can be used to introduce Phaedrus' fables to children.
Alberto Regagliolo
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Hesiodic Influence on Plato's Myth of the Cicadas

Plato, 2023
This paper argues that Hesiod's Myth of the Golden Race (Op. 109-126) influenced Plato's Myth of the Cicadas from the Phaedrus (258e-259d). Among other parallels, Hesiod's Golden Race and Plato's Cicadas have a similar diet and a similar rapport with the
Marko Vitas
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 387-409, September 2025.
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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Aproximación a la poética de Fedro [PDF]

, 1996
Este trabajo analiza el programa poético de Fedro. Hay, además de los prólogos y epílogos a varios libros, algunos extractos en que Fedro habla acerca de sí mismo y de su arte.
Mañas Núñez, Manuel
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Efficiency and scaling of current drive and refuelling by spheromak injection into a tokamak [PDF]

, 1992
The first measurements of current drive (refluxing) and refuelling by spheromak injection into a tokamak are discussed in detail. The current drive mechanism is attributed to the process of helicity injection, and refuelling is attributed to the rapid ...
Bellan, P. M., Brown, M. R.
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La symbolique animale dans les Fables de Phèdre

Aitia, 2023
In his from Aesop translated fables, Phaedrus shows animal figures which noticeably differ from those of his Greek model. If these changes can partially be due to the versifying of the Aesopian fables, they above all attest
Sara Cusset
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Deep ASI Literacy: Educating for Alignment with Artificial Super Intelligent Systems

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 739-764, August 2025.
Abstract Artificial intelligence companies and researchers are currently working to create Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): AI systems that significantly exceed human problem‐solving speed, power, and precision across the full range of human solvable problems. Some have claimed that achieving ASI — for better or worse — would be the most significant
Nicolas J. Tanchuk
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