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Parmenides as psychologist – Part one: fragments DK 1 and 2

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2016
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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The Use and Meaning of the Past in Plato

Plato, 2021
This essay is based on two premises. The first concerns the vision of writing proposed by Plato in Phaedrus and especially the conception of philosophical writing as a maieutic game. The structurally polyvalent way in which Plato approaches philosophical
Maurizio Migliori
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Truth, Transcendence, and the Good [PDF]

, 2018
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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L’âme du monde : Platon, Anaxagore, Empédocle

Études Platoniciennes, 2014
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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Diels (H.) Griechische Philosophie. Vorlesungsmitschrift aus dem Wintersemester 1897/98. Edited by Johannes Saltzwedel. Pp. xxii + 99, ills. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. Paper, €24. ISBN: 978-3-515-09609-6. [PDF]

, 2011
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence
Heit, Helmut
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Thinking, Supposing, and Physis in Parmenides

Études Platoniciennes, 2016
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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How to name invisible principles? The challenge of naming what the eyes cannot see

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental
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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The Paradigmatic Significance of Perception in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophy of Being [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2018
Ṣadrā presents the usefulness of the faculties of perception governed by the intellect as a fitting paradigm for understanding man’s being in the world in relation to the divine purpose and source of this being.
آنتونی ف. شاکر
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The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics

Ideas y Valores, 2012
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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Beckett, Duchamp and Chess: A Crossroads at Arcachon in the Summer of 1940

Anglophonia, 2013
L’artiste Marcel Duchamp et le poète Samuel Beckett ont passé l’été 1940 à Arcachon, à jouer aux échecs. L’Histoire n’a pas laissé de trace de leurs conversations.
Harry Vandervlist
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