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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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Abstract Kantian ethics is traditionally seen as grounded in unchanging, universally binding, and a priori knowable principles. I argue that this picture is incomplete: Kant grounds his ethics not only in categorical moral principles, but also in regulative moral ideas of reason.
Sabina Vaccarino Bremner
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While much attention has been paid to the role of divine inspiration in the case of Socrates within Plato’s early and middle period dialogues, this paper examines Plato’s late period works and argues that despite the drastic changes in methodology found ...
Larkin, Daniel
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The Exemplary Rhetor: On Anti-Philosophy and Sophistics in Alain Badiou
This article investigates the ambiguous status of rhetoric, situated between proper philosophy and mere sophistry, through Alan Badiou’s three exemplary figures of thought: the philosopher, the anti-philosopher, and the sophist. With the recent return of the sophist in politics in the form of populist politicians, contemporary rhetorical studies have ...
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Abstract This essay revisits the early methodology of Rudolph von Jhering. It has often been dismissed due to its heavy metaphysics, unwieldy presentation, and alleged neglect of teleology. But a charitable reconstruction in contemporary terms reveals a coherence theory of jurisprudence that is in many ways superior to current coherence accounts.
Pascal Felix Meier
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Saturation as a methodological principle for philosophical research
Abstract How can philosophers determine when they should conclude their research process? This paper introduces the saturation principle to philosophical methodology. The idea of saturation, first formulated by Glaser and Strauss in 1967, has become an influential quality criterion for qualitative research in the hermeneutical and pragmatist traditions
Jing Hiah +2 more
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The recent nine-volume edition of the Early Greek Philosophy by Andre Laks and Glenn W. Most for the “Loeb Classical Library” collection (Harvard University Press) is announced as the new reference work. This work aims to replace the canonical edition of
S. Barrionuevo
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Theory in socio‐legal studies: Revisiting the Cotterrell–Nelken debate
Abstract This contribution celebrates the 25th anniversary of the publication in this journal of an era‐defining debate between Roger Cotterrell and David Nelken. It reads the debate as the product of the communicative turn in legal theory, the absorbing and productive nature of which many of us – including the present author – are in danger of ...
ISOBEL ROELE
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Heidegger on the ontological significance of the principle of noncontradiction
Abstract The aim of this article is to break down to its principal arguments the abundant material recently published in Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe related to a conference given in December 1932 on the principle of noncontradiction (PNC). I will first highlight the importance in phenomenology of a correct interpretation of the PNC and then explain ...
François Jaran
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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