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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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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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The fires of change: Kirk, Popper, and the Heraclitean debate [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper, I explore a prominent question of Hericlitean scholarship: how is change possible? Karl Popper and G. S. Kirk tackle this same question.
Cooper, Holly
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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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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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Chaosmos Against the Metaphysics of One, or a Defence Against Badiou’s Criticism on Deleuze

Elpis, 2018
Alain Badiou asserts that Deleuze’s philosophy is a reintroduction of the metaphysics of One, although Deleuze tries to overcome it. He thinks that the univocity of Being in Deleuze’s philosophy is a sign of the contingent and coherent cosmos that is ...
Zülfükar Emir Özer
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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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Parmenides as Psychologist — Part Two: DK 6 and 7

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2017
The aim of this essay is to examine an aspect of Parmenides’ poem which is often overlooked: the psychological grounds Parmenides uses to construct his view.
Nicola Galgano
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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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Style Matters in Presocratic Philosophy, an introduction

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental
What we envisaged as a dossier to explore the connection between style and philosophy in this unique transitional period of Presocratic philosophy has turned out to be a volume that breaks with several conventional views of the Presocratics and has the ...
Celso Vieira, Gabriele Cornelli
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