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Philosophy of Intellect and Vision in the De anima of Themistius [PDF]

, 2010
Themistius (317–c. 387) was born into an aristocratic family and ran a paripatetic school of philosophy in Constantinople in the mid-fourth century, between 345 and 355.
Hendrix, John S
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Vil Haton i Entoni Gidens (prir): Na ivici, živeti s globalnim kapitalizmom, Plato, Beograd, 2003 [PDF]

, 2003
Dragan Petrović
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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Pleasure and Subjectivity in the Republic IX ‘Authority Argument’ (580d3-583a10)

Plato
I argue that the Republic IX ‘Authority Argument’ (580d3-583a10) embraces both subjectivity of hedonic experience and objectivity of hedonic character. This combination of views undermines the interpretations of both the argument’s main critics and its ...
Lee Franklin
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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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Measurement, Decoherence and Master Equations

, 2011
In the first part of this thesis we concern ourselves with the problem of generating pseudo-random circuits. These are a series of quantum gates chosen at random, with the overall effect of implementing unitary operations with statistical properties ...
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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The distinction between knowledge and opinion in Rep. 477c1-478a6

Plato
Plato’s argument in Rep. 5, 477c1-478a6, proves that knowledge (epistēmē) is a power different from opinion (doxa), and their objects are different in kind, too. This claim by itself would probably have been rejected by the so-called ‘sight-lovers’, i.e.
Thanassis Gkatzaras
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Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato [PDF]

, 2017
In this essay, we consider the formal and ontological implications of one specific and intensely contested dialectical context from which Deleuze’s thinking about structural ideal genesis visibly arises. This is the formal/ontological dualism between the
Bova, John, Livingston, Paul M.
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
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