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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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Educación para la Democracia. Una visión desde los clásicos [PDF]
, 2009 Partiendo del nexo común entre Educación, Democracia y Filosofía, este artículo aborda algunas características de la erística sofista, la mayéutica socrática y la dialéctica aristotélica.
Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar
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Theoria, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
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Socrate, « homme érotique » (erôtikos anèr) ?
Kentron, 2015 This article attempts first to re-examine the Socratic question on the basis of an analysis of the pattern of Socrates’ amorous behaviour, taking into account the parallelisms and cross-linkages to be discovered in the ...
Jean-Luc Périllié
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The passions in Plato's The Republic and Ion : possibilities of philosophical inquiry [PDF]
, 2008 This article analyzes Plato's arguments regarding passions. In Ion, Plato proposes that passions are something poetic, beautiful and necessary to man, in The Republic something that takes man away from the path of reason, making him lose his strength.
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Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
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Ordre et progression des discours au chapitre IV du Banquet de Xénophon
Kentron, 2015 Chapter IV of Xenophon’s Symposium has sixty-four paragraphs, making it the longest one in the dialogue. It is the chapter in which each of the participants in the Symposium (Callias, Niceratus, Critobulus, Charmides ...
Louis-André Dorion
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Platón y Sócrates, piscagogos : Las 'palabras mágicas' de Sócrates y la cura del alma ('Cármides' 157a) [PDF]
, 2014 Sócrates es presentado en el Cármides de Platón como un "brujo" que con unas palabras mágicas puede hacer pasar la jaqueca del joven Cármides. Examinado detenidamente el diálogo de Platón, queda claro que solo la palabra y la reflexión (el élenchos), la ...
Mensa i Valls, Jaume
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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Phenomenal knowledge and phenomenal causality
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 212-232, March 2026.Abstract There has been extensive debate over whether we can have phenomenal knowledge in the case of epiphenomenalism. This article aims to bring that debate to a close. I first develop a refined causal account of knowledge—one that is modest enough to avoid various putative problems, yet sufficiently robust to undermine the epiphenomenalist position.
Lei Zhong
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