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The Religious beliefs of Critias the Sophist: Rational Theology or Atheism?

ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, 2021
Sextus Empiricus (Adv. Math. IX. 54. = B 25 DK) has preserved a fragment of a work attributed to the sophist and tyrant Critias. This fragment has long been considered a manifesto not only of atheism but also, perhaps, the first text in which religion is
Rustam Galanin
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Ontology and Epistemology of Non-being in Plato's Philosophy: On Origins and Nature of Platonic Apophaticism

ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, 2022
The dialogues "Parmenides" and "Sophist" are among the most important texts of Plato, where the themes of non-existence and apophaticism are considered. In the 20th century, they received interpretations radically different from the Neoplatonic one. They
A. Bogomolov, R. Svetlov, Dmitry V. Shmonin   +2 more
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Pico della Mirandola and the Presocratics [PDF]

, 2018
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) decided to study all the ancient and medieval schools of philosophy, including the Pre-Socratics, in order to broaden his scope. Pico showed interest in ancient monists.
Steiris, Georgios
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More than a Reductio: Plato's Method in the Parmenides and Lysis [PDF]

, 2019
Plato’s Parmenides and Lysis have a surprising amount in common from a methodological standpoint. Both systematically employ a method that I call ‘exploring both sides’, a philosophical method for encouraging further inquiry and comprehensively ...
Rodriguez, Evan
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The Dokounta of the Platonic Dialectician. On Plato’s distinction between the insufficient "present discussion" and a satisfactory future one

Peitho, 2015
It is a recurring pattern in Plato´s dialogues that the dialectician leads the discussion to a certain point where he identifies further, more fundamental problems, on which he claims to have his own view (to emoi dokoun, vel sim.), which he does not ...
Thomas Alexander Szlezák
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Epistemological vs. Ontological Relationalism in Quantum Mechanics: Relativism or Realism? [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper we investigate the history of relationalism and its present use in some interpretations of quantum mechanics. In the first part of this article we will provide a conceptual analysis of the relation between substantivalism, relationalism and
de Ronde, Christian, Moujan, Raimundo Fernandez   +1 more
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Dialectic of eros and myth of the soul in Plato's Phaedrus [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper, I question a widespread reading of a passage in the last part of the Phaedrus dealing with the science of dialectic. According to this reading, the passage announces a new method peculiar to the later Plato aiming at defining natural kinds.
Larsen, Jens Kristian
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Analytic philosophy for biomedical research: the imperative of applying yesterday's timeless messages to today's impasses [PDF]

, 2020
The mantra that "the best way to predict the future is to invent it" (attributed to the computer scientist Alan Kay) exemplifies some of the expectations from the technical and innovative sides of biomedical research at present.
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Plato’s Master Argument for a Two-Kind Ontology in the Sophist: A New Reading of the Final Argument of the Gigantomachia Passage (249b5–249c9)

APEIRON: a journal for ancient philosophy and science, 2020
In this paper I defend a new reading of the final argument of the Gigantomachia passage of Plato’s Sophist (249b5–249c9), according to which it is an argument for a two-kind ontology, based on the distinction between the changing beings and the ...
Pauline Sabrier
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Mageiros sofistis: The Learned Cook in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistai

Classica Cracoviensia, 2015
Mageiros sofistis: The Learned Cook in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistai Within the category of “cultural humour” applied by Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistai, a special place is assigned to the speeches of stock mageiroi, who seek to obtain theoretical ...
Magdalena Stuligrosz
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