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Philosophy's past: Cognitive values and the history of philosophy
Abstract Recent authors hold that the role of historical scholarship within contemporary philosophical practice is to question current assumptions, to expose vestiges or to calibrate intuitions. On these views, historical scholarship is dispensable, since these roles can be achieved by nonhistorical methods.
Phil Corkum
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The Relationship between the Soul and the Incorporeal and Corporeal Things in Plotinus and Mulla-sadra's Philosophy [PDF]
The relationship between incorporeal and material things is one of the most important issues in philosophy. Two-fold nature of Soul let it to be mediation between the intellect and the matter.
reaz akbarian, tayebeh karami
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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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Delineating beauty: On form and the boundaries of the aesthetic
Abstract Philosophical aesthetics has recently been expanding its purview—with exciting work on everyday aesthetics, somaesthetics, gustatory aesthetics, and the aesthetics of imperceptibilia like mathematics and human character—reclaiming territory that was lost during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the discipline begun concentrating ...
Panos Paris
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Reflection of Neo-Platonism on the Philosophy of MullÁ SadrÁ [PDF]
Plotinus was a major philosopher of the ancient Greek whose Enneads had a significant influence upon the Islamic philosophy. Among Muslim philosophers, MullÁ ÑadrÁ has greatly benefited from his views and doctrines, so that a good deal of specific ...
Muhammad Mehdi GurjÐyÁn +1 more
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Why the One Cannot Have Parts: Plotinus on Divine Simplicity, Ontological Independence, and Perfect Being Theology [PDF]
I use Plotinus to present absolute divine simplicity as the consequence of principles about metaphysical and explanatory priority to which most theists are already committed.
Cohoe, Caleb M.
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Abstract This review article examines and summarizes the key ideas and contributions of Nikolaos Loudovikos' book Analogical Identities: The Creation of the Christian Self – Beyond Spirituality and Mysticism in the Patristic Era. The book offers a reimagining of Christian anthropology and the understanding of the self by critiquing what the author sees
Sotiris Mitralexis
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Sudûr Nazariyesinin Platon ve Aristoteles Felsefeleri Çerçevesinde Analizi
Felsefe tarihinde ilke, neden, arke, hipostaz vb. kavramlar etrafında mevcudatın varlığa gelişi ile ilgili farklı nazariyeler ileri sürülmüştür. Bu nazariyelerden bazıları hipotezlerinin zayıflığı sebebiyle bir süre sonra anlamını yitirip düşünce ...
Mehmet Murat Karakaya
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Beyond the Polemics: Freedom and Necessity in Plotinus and St Maximus Confessor
Abstract Abstract: The aim of this paper is to challenge the prevailing polemic between ‘necessary’ emanation and ‘free’ creation. I begin by arguing for the presence of freedom and volition in the emanationism of Plotinus. I then move on to explore the role of necessity in the creationism of Maximus. In both cases, I rely upon a twofold schematisation
Daniel Heide
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The Russian Artist in Plato's Republic [PDF]
In Book 10 of the Republic, Plato launches an extensive critique of art, claiming that it can have no legitimate role within the well-ordered state. While his reasons are multifac- eted, Plato’s primary objection to art rests on its status as a mere ...
Michelle, Panchuk
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