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, 2004 The writer discusses the possibility of writing an animal's biography. It may be too simple to assume that anthropocentrism—a belief in the centrality and superiority of human beings—is the reason why the concept of biography has always been applied ...
Fudge, Erica
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The Obscure Origins of True Contradictions [PDF]
, 2005 Advances in modern logic have provided grounds for a review of Herakleitan fragments. Focusing on fragments that are indeed explicitly contradictory, we suggest that true contradictions play an important part in Herakleitos’ theories.
Bastiras, Demetrios
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Exploring tranquility: Eastern and Western perspectives. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Christoffersen VR +2 more
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Bird communication in ancient Greek and Roman thought [PDF]
, 2015 The aim of the article is to analyse ancient Greek and Roman theories on bird communication. The author observes that the examples of bird communication were often used by ancient philosophers as arguments against the prevailing conception that only ...
Kleczkowska, Katarzyna
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The Cradle of Humanity: A Psychological and Phenomenological Perspective [PDF]
, 2017 We present an account of the evolutionary development of the experiences of empathy that marked the beginning of morality and art. We argue that aesthetic and moral capacities provided an important foundation for later epistemic developments.
Horne, Spencer, Montemayor, Carlos
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Montaigne, leitor de sexto empírico: a crítica da filosofia moral
Kriterion, 2012 O objetivo deste artigo é examinar como Montaigne retoma, na sua crítica das filosofias morais e, especialmente, da existência de leis naturais, a proposta por Sexto Empírico acerca do mesmo tema ao final das Hipotiposes Pirronianas. Pretendo mostrar que,
Luiz Eva
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The Truth about Parmenides\u27 Doxa
, 2016 In a recent article in this journal, Néstor-Luis Cordero has offered an interesting account of how scholars may have been misreading Parmenides\u27 poem for centuries, as well as some provocative suggestions on how to correct that misreading.
Kurfess, Christopher
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Leon Battista Alberti and the Concept of Lineament [PDF]
, 2011 A core idea in the architectural theory of Leon Battista Alberti, as expressed in the De re aedificatoria, is the distinction between “lineament,” the line in the mind of the architect, and “matter,” the material presence of the building.
Hendrix, John S
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Sextus Empiricus: Against the Physicists
Aestimatio, 2015 Richard Bett (book editor and translator) +1 more
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Radical enhancement as a moral status de-enhancer. [PDF]
Monash Bioeth Rev, 2020 Gray J.
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