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Aristotelian Presocratics A Look at Aristotle\'s Interpretation of Presocratic Phiolosophers

Metaphysics, 2015
Aristotle's understanding of Presocratic philosophers and his interpretation of their theses based on his own framework has always been a matter of dispute among scholars. His role of representing them as one of the main sources of Presocratic philosophy
Mehdi Qavam Safari
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The word “Theology” from the Presocratics to Peter Abelard: Philosophy and Science. Some Remarks [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct, through the analysis of some key moments, the evolution of the term “theology” within the Western philosophical thought.
Mauro Ferrante
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Man, Muse, and Story: Psychohistorical Patterns in Oral Epic Poetry [PDF]

, 1987
Early studies of oral epic literature, that is, of epic literature composed without the aid of writing within a continuous tradition of some antiquity, focused quite logically and understandably on the somewhat mysterious mechanics of a totally ...
Foley, John Miles
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Menorah Review (No. 51, Winter, 2001) [PDF]

, 2001
Celebrating Nathan Glazer\u27s American Judaism -- Is Process Thought Progress? -- Biblical Claims: The Historical Basis -- Defining and Redefining Jewishness -- Engagement in Writing Jewish History -- Noteworthy ...

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Nothing Exists: Nonbeing as a Man-Made Image (Eikon). A Gorgianic Argument

Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
There have been three different approaches to Gorgias’ texts. According to the first approach, Gorgias’ treatise On What is Not is just a rhetorical parody of philosophical doctrines (philological or rhetorical approach). According to the second approach,
Michael Bakaoukas
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A Conversation on Divine Infinity and Cantorian Set Theory [PDF]

, 2012
This essay is written as a drama that opens with Aristotle, St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Nicholas of Cusa debating the nature and reality of infinity, introducing historical concepts such as potential, actual, and divine infinity ...
Henry, Stephen G.
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The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis

EPJ Data Science
We explore the influence and interconnectivity of philosophical thinkers within the Wikipedia knowledge network. Using a dataset of 237 articles dedicated to philosophers across nine different language editions (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German ...
Guillaume Rollin, José Lages
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Meno’s Paradox is an Epistemic Regress Problem [PDF]

, 2019
I give an interpretation according to which Meno’s paradox is an epistemic regress problem. The paradox is an argument for skepticism assuming that acquired knowledge about an object X requires prior knowledge about what X is and any knowledge must be ...
Cling, Andrew
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Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Preliminaries to an Ontological Approach [PDF]

, 2006
It will be shown in this article that an ontological approach for some problems related to the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics could emerge from a re-evaluation of the main paradox of early Greek thought: the paradox of Being and non-Being, and the ...
Coecke, B., Verelst, K.
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Aristotle on Atomism [PDF]

, 2009
Two kinds of atomism emerged in the philosophy off the Presocratics. One kind was devised as a response to Parmenides and involved indivisible physical atoms. The other kind emerged in response to Zeno’s paradoxes and involved indivisible magnitudes that
Chalmers, Alan F
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