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On the Gods and the World. Orpheus and the Presocratics in the Derveni Papyrus

Reflexe
Book review on On the Gods and the World.
Antonín Šíma
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Los Antecedentes Presocráticos de la Teoría Estoica de Conflagración

Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2022
In this paper, I explore the Presocratic antecedents of the Stoic theory of conflagration and argue that, even though three central theses of this theory have solid antecedents in Presocratic physics, the logical connection between them is a Stoic ...
Ricardo Salles
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Aristotle on pre-Platonic theories of sense-perception and knowledge

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
This paper is an attempt to make sense of Aristotle’s polemic –and, if taken at face value, quite evidently wrong– contention that the ancient thinkers globally failed to distinguish thought and knowledge from sensation.
Luis Andrés Bredlow
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Certa via cap a l’ànima del món

BRAC, 2023
L’any 2021 un col·lectiu d’artistes va inaugurar a Girona una instal·lació que mereix una anàlisi detallada, donada la densitat de referències que presenta. El col·lectiu va titular la instal·lació Incerta via, un projecta on explícitament pretenien fer
Roger Ferrer
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Cicero in the Late-Medieval Tractatus Nauticus [PDF]

, 2013
Allusions to Cicero in the late-medieval tractatus nauticus. The Middle Ages is presented as far removed from the development of the sciences, focusing instead on religious aspects.
Medina-Hernández, Carlos
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The Reception of Hesiod by the Early Presocratics [PDF]

, 2018
The early Presocratics’ major speculative and critical initiatives—in particular, Anaximander’s conceptions of the justice of the cosmos and of the apeiron as its archē and Xenophanes’s polemics against immorality and anthropomorphism in the depiction of
Miller, Mitchell
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Parmenides’ Structure of the Earth

Peitho, 2023
It is generally accepted that the enigmatic fragment 12 of Parmenides, supplemented by the first part of A.tius II 7.1, represents an unlikely cosmos which comprises alternating spherical crowns of fire and night, surrounding the earth.
Guido Calenda
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Nietzsche’s transcription of the early European counterfeit [PDF]

, 2010
An inter-disciplinary enquiry concerning Europe, Europeans and Europeanity across time, based on proceedings of the 10th world congress of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas convened at the University of Malta.
Haaz, Ignace
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Empedocles and the Other Physiologists in Aristotle’s Physics II 8

Peitho, 2016
In this paper I propose to show: 1) that in Phys. II 8 Aristotle takes Empedocles as a paradigm for a theoretical position common to all philosophers who preceded him: the view that materialism implies a mechanistic explanation of natural becoming; and 2)
Giovanna R. Giardina
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Crisis and philosophy: Aeschylus and Euripides on Orestes' crimes [PDF]

, 2012
Since the XIX century, a pleiad of philosophers and historians support the idea that Greek philosophy, usually reported to have started with the presocratics, lays its basis in a previous moment: the Greek myths – systematized by Homer and Hesiod – and ...
Lago de Sousa Barroso, Gabriel, Magalhães Bambirra, Felipe   +1 more
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