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Aristotle's Platonic Response to the Problem of First Principles [PDF]
, 2020 how does one inquire into the truth of first principles? Where does one begin when deciding where to begin? Aristotle recognizes a series of difficulties when it comes to understanding the starting points of a scientific or philosophical system, and ...
Rodriguez, Evan
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, 2003 This paper provides an introductory survey of the evidence for Porphyry’s writings on rhetoric and a discussion of their context and influence, together with a detailed commentary on the testimonia and fragments.
Heath, M.
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Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 209-221, April 2026.Abstract In Plato's Republic, Socrates' account of an ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy closely concerns the failure of poets to defend justice as good in itself and not merely for its external benefits. No less an exemplum of poetry than Shakespeare's Macbeth does just that.
Mark J. Boone
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Rethinking Plato’s Forms [PDF]
, 2013 This is a proposal for rethinking the main lines of Plato’s philosophy, including some of the conceptual tools he uses for building and maintaining it.
Alican, Necip Fikri, Thesleff, Holger
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 133-151, March 2026.ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
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RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2021 The article considers the logical and philosophical doctrine of sophists, which, according to some modern researchers, was more philosophical than their ancient critics recognized. A comparison of the provisions of Aristotle's hermeneutics with preserved fragments of Protagoras and Gorgias shows that the doctrine of sophists was a kind of holistic ...
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Human Attention as a Philosophical Problem: The Question, and the Nature of Questions
Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 1-2, Page 3-22, January 2026.Abstract Human attention has become a touchstone of widespread concern across the humanities, sciences, and broader culture in much of the world. The emergence of a new, heavily capitalized, and technologically sophisticated industry “commodifying” human attention (what has been called “human fracking”) has given rise to a transdisciplinary ...
D. Graham Burnett
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Future in Educational Research, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 569-579, December 2025.ABSTRACT This conceptual essay, grounded in a close reading of Plato's Theaetetus, argues that before educators can effectively operationalise critical thinking as the rigorous evaluation ('stress‐testing') of competing knowledge claims, university students must first understand foundational epistemological principles rooted in Plato's tripartite ...
Gerry Dunne
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Performing paideia: literature as an instrument for social promotion in the fourth century A.D. [PDF]
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Van Hoof, Lieve
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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