Parmenide non si è limitato a delineare la sua famosa teoria dell'essere. Il suo nome è legato anche a un elaborato sapere sul mondo fisico e su aspetti del mondo della vita, ma quest'altra dimensione della sua personalità è stata a lungo lasciata in ombra, trascurata o addirittura negata. Solo di [...]

englischThe three dialogues, which are the object of the collected papers included in this volume, are a unicum in the Platonic corpus. No other existing trilogy is connected dramatically so clearly as they are. From the formal point of view, in these texts Plato shows his brilliant literary ability [...]

englischCollected in these Proceedings are the papers from the 4th Southeast European Bioethical Forum, held on September 3-5, 2008 in Opatija (Croatia), as a satellite conference of the 9th World Congress of Bioethics. The importance of this conference demonstrates itself in two aspects; on the one [...]

Die Geschichte der Philosophie ist auch die Geschichte ihres bleibenden Widerspruchs. Die Philosophie in ihrer Form als Metaphysik entstand in der Antike als Kritik am Mythos. Die mythische Weltsicht wurde jedoch nicht überwunden, sondern blieb präsent und damit auch im philosophischen Diskurs [...]

englischSacrifice is one of the most primordial forms through which the human being relates himself to the transcendent. Apparently, it can be found in all cultures and on all levels of evolution of mankind. Sacrifice is essential for the understanding of identity, stability and perhaps even the [...]

englischEthical thinking is a response to the claim that is constituted by our own as well as the nature of all living beings. As free beings we show freedom not by replacing but by respecting nature. This means that we have to understand the natural aims and behavior of living beings as sources of [...]

englischThis study explores Plato in the work of Kant, Natorp, and Heidegger. The author aims sympathetically to present their important if unfamiliar Plato-interpretations, and to grasp how these are related to their philosophical projects. He argues that Natorp's interpretation of the Platonic [...]

englischThe book investigates the systematic relations between central concepts in Bernard Bolzano's (1781-1848) theory of knowledge which connects a logic-semantic realism with a causalist metaphysics of the mind. Bolzano treats basic epistemic activities such as representing, judging and inferring [...]

englischWe have all asked ourselves, at least once in our lifetime, about the meaning of history. If reflection on history searches for the meaning of men's acting and suffering in time, the classic historian's question 'How did it come about?' turns into the modern historian's 'How will it end?' [...]

englischPlato's dialogues inspired a long series of authors after him, from his own student Aristotle onward. The articles in this anthology, selected from the Sixth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, consider various interpretations and reincarnations of Plato's [...]