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Parmenides as Psychologist — Part Two: DK 6 and 7
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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Truth, Transcendence, and the Good [PDF]
Nietzsche regarded nihilism as an outgrowth of the natural sciences which, he worried, were bringing about “an essentially mechanistic [and hence meaningless] world.” Nihilism in this sense refers to the doctrine that there are no values, or that ...
Bourke, Michael
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Parmenides as psychologist – Part one: fragments DK 1 and 2
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 S Galgano
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Style Matters in Presocratic Philosophy, an introduction
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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Chaosmos Against the Metaphysics of One, or a Defence Against Badiou’s Criticism on Deleuze
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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L’âme du monde : Platon, Anaxagore, Empédocle
Was there an antecedent to Plato’s concept of the World Soul in the writings of the Presocratics? Given the scarcity of our evidence, it is safer to narrow the question down: Does Plato himself point to such an antecedent?
Filip Karfík
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Thinking, Supposing, and Physis in Parmenides
What could justify the Presocratic conviction that human beings can have knowledge? The answer that I am exploring in a larger project is that most Presocratic thinkers share a commitment to the possibility of a “natural fit” between the world and human ...
Patricia Curd
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The impact of faith on relational thought [PDF]
Paper presented at the conf Faith, freedom and the academy: the idea of the university in the 21st century, Univ of Prince Edward Island, O 1-3 ...
Buss, Martin J.
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Graham, Daniel W.The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics. 2 Vol. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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How to name invisible principles? The challenge of naming what the eyes cannot see
What were the guidelines that the ancient atomists followed when coining new terms to name their principles? To what extent the difficulty of apprehension and understanding of the nature of their principles would justify the use of more than one term for
Miriam Campolina Diniz Peixoto
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