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Protagoras: Pioneer of Relativism or Pyrrhonian Skepticism? [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- KalāmīProtagoras has often been considered a relativist because he believed that man is the measure of all things (MM). This paper aims to show that focusing on MM and ignoring his other claims, which should be taken to be as epistemologically important as MM,
Iman Khodafard +3 more
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Criticism of Religion in the Philosophy of the Sophists
Ideas and Ideals, 2022 The article deals with the socio-historical conditions of the formation of criticism of religion in the philosophy of sophists. It is shown that there were two directions in the religious criticism of the sophists. The first direction was associated with religious agnosticism. Protagoras defended the idea of the incomprehensibility of the gods.
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From smart and corporate to urban and edgy: revitalising organisations in turbulent environments [PDF]
, 2008 Purpose: This paper aims to address issues surrounding the revitalising of organisations in turbulent environments. Design/methodology/approach: The paper contains a discussion of relevant issues and presentation of research which considers how leaders
John Peters, Maria Burke
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The Unity of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics: Book \u395 according to the Interpretation of the Ancient Commentators [PDF]
, 2018 This paper discusses the three ancient commentaries on Book E of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics, that have been handed down to us. It aims to demonstrate the fundamental part played by their particular interpretation of Aristotle\u2019s doctrines in the ...
Salis, RITA MARIA GAVINA
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, 2017 Guided by the bold ambition to reexamine the nature of philosophy, questions about the foundations and origins of Plato’s dialogues have in recent years gained a new and important momentum.
Olof, Pettersson
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Absoluteness of Truth and the Lvov–Warsaw School (Twardowski, Kotarbiński, Leśniewski, Łukasiewicz, Tarski, Kokoszyńska) [PDF]
, 2016 According to Twardowski, truth is if it is independent of temporal coordinates. This understanding was one of the main arguments against truth-relativism. Kotarbiński rejected this view as far the issue concerns sentences about the future, but he did not
Woleński, Jan
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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The power of the Sophist [PDF]
, 1990 Plato is mistaken on both sides of his distinction between Socrates and the Sophists. He imagines the Sophists to have a formless power that cannot be resisted.
Kolb, David
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Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue S1, Page S6-S24, April 2026.Abstract Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense‐making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the truth of the fire in which seventy‐two people died. This article interrogates the truth‐seeking and truth‐producing practices of the Inquiry.
JAMIE M. JOHNSON +2 more
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