englischPlato's political thought gave rise to a number of concepts and issues - such as the idea of a normative theory, the philosophical foundation of politics, the philosopher-kings, the standard of utopian theory - which have played a significant role on Western political and philosophical [...]

This book concerns the soul/body problem in Plato and Aristotle. Established as well as early career scholars actually working on Plato and Aristotle explore - under different points of view as well as through original readings and interpretations - the manifold dimensions involved in the conception [...]

Vasilij V. Zen'kovskij (1881-1962) untersucht in seinem 1926 erschienenen Buch die Frage des Verhältnisses von Russland und Europa, wie es in der russischen Kritik der europäischen Kultur seit der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts gesehen wird. Zen'kovskijs Fazit ist angesichts der gegenwärtigen [...]

englischWhat did the early Greek philosophers think about animals and their lives? How did they view plants? And, ultimately, what type of relationship did they envisage between all sorts of living beings? On these topics there is evidence of a prolonged investigation by several Presocratics. [...]

This book is a study of Plato's portraiture of Socrates and of his βίος φιλοσοφικός and of the cultural semantics that underlie it. It focuses on the introductory part of this particular dialogue (57a-61c), with particular emphasis on the repeated references to Aesop and on Socrates' reported [...]

englischTak-Lap Yeung's work pursues an innovative perspective of interpretation that aims to reconstruct Heidegger's adaptation of Kant as a method of reinterpretation. The goal of this research is to strengthen a new reading of Kant while simultaneously developing an independent approach, inspired [...]

englischDo you sometimes think the world could be a better place? Do you think that hunger, war, poverty and misery should be eliminated? The signs pointing to the world getting better are currently not good. War is raging in Ukraine, the pandemic remains prevalent, the first consequences of global [...]

englischIn the 21st century, the struggle to make the world, the self and the social available culminates in a steady increase of complex societal transformations. Developments in ecology, technology and politics give rise to experiences of the unavailable where previously the certainty of [...]

Aus dem im Geist der Hegelschen Philosophie verfaßten 'Versuch einer spekulativen Entwicklung der Idee der Persönlichkeit' des finnischen Philosophen und Staatsmanns J.V. Snellman (1806-1881) ist hier der entscheidende dritte Teil wieder zugänglich gemacht.

Ben Ware deutet in seiner ebenso kühnen wie originellen Untersuchung Wittgensteins Tractatus Logico-philosophicus – eines der rätselhaftesten Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts – als ein dialektisch angelegte Abhandlung, die den Leser von seinen philosophischen Selbsttäuschungen befreien will. Der [...]

Es gelingt Thomas Wachtendorf ausgehend von einer gründlichen Neulektüre aller Schriften Wittgensteins, erstmals die internen Bezüge zwischen Ethik und Mythologie nachzuzeichnen und damit eine konsistente Ethik-Konzeption vorzulegen, die für Wittgensteins Früh- und Spätwerk gleichermaßen gültig [...]

Dante Alighieri (1265 Florenz - 1321 Ravenna) gilt als Begründer der modernen italienischen Hochsprache. Unter seinen Werken nimmt zwar die Divina Commedia einen besonderen Rang ein. Aber auch sein auf Latein abgefasstes Werk über die Monarchie, wohl gleichzeitig mit der Commedia entstanden, nimmt [...]

Die Leopold-Ziegler-Stiftung, auf Grund letztwilliger Verfügung am 23. Februar 1960 in Überlingen errichtet, legt Briefe Leopold Zieglers von 1901 bis 1958 in Auswahl vor. In den Briefwechseln mußte auf eine chronologische Reihenfolge verzichtet werden, da Mitteilung, Nachricht, Frage und Antwort [...]

englischThe volume collects a series of nine studies, with a substantial introduction, by international scholars that concern the influence and reception of the philosophy of Parmenides in the whole ancient context. The contributions deal with Parmenides’ thought from the ancient archaic tradition [...]

englischThe study examines the significance of numbers in Plato's metaphysics and philosophy of mathematics with the aim of reassessing the testimonies of Plato in Aristotle. In careful interpretations of Plato's dialogues Politeia, Timaeus and Parmenides, the significance of numbers for the [...]

englisch2,500 years of philosophical work, from antiquity to modernity, from Parmenides to Heidegger. Whoever wants to engage with this tradition requires an understanding of its historical development. This introduction to philosophical thinking addresses readers who are willing to follow along the [...]

englischThe Fourth Book of Aristotle's Meteorologica has been defined as a 'Chemical Treatise'. It is the starting point of a long, rich activity of exegesis and appropriation, from later Greek philosophy to Arab and Latin Medieval thought. The papers in this volume take the reader through the [...]

englischThis volume provides a new Greek text and a detailed historical-philosophical commentary on Epicurus' Letter to Pythocles. The content of the letter concerns the study of the causes of celestial phenomena by means of the so-called method of multiple explanations, which is an original [...]

englischIn spite of its brevity and its aporetical ending, Plato’s Hippias minor is worth considering, for it deals with relevant questions such as falsehood, its relationship to wrongdoing and the more complex problem of voluntary and involuntary action. Moreover, the central section of the [...]

This volume presents the English translation of a selection of 15 essays out of the 82 comprised in the seven-volume commentary on Plato's Republic, edited by Mario Vegetti and published by Bibliopolis (Naples). 1. Thrasymachus (M. Vegetti, Univ. di Pavia) 2. Poetry: paideia and mimesis (S. [...]

Die vorgelegte Korrespondenz ist als Ehrung für Paul Lorenzen gedacht, mit dem die Herausgeber, ehemalige Mitarbeiter eines physikalischen Instituts der ehemaligen Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR in Potsdam-Babelsberg mehr als zehn Jahre im Briefwechsel standen. Gegenstand der Diskussion ist in [...]

englischThe articles in this volume are a selection of the papers presented at the Tenth Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society held at Pisa in July 2013, under the auspices of the University of Pisa, the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, and the President [...]

englischFor a long time, the natural sciences owed their success to the strategy of reducing phenomena to a few effective causes. Today, an additional approach is emerging: thinking in terms of complex systems.

It explains a kind of illusory world that is beginning to establish itself between [...]

Klassiker haben, entgegen eines weitverbreiteten Vorurteils, keinen privilegierten Zugang zur Erkenntnis. Ein Autor wird vielmehr dann und nur dann zu einem 'Klassiker', wenn seine Texte eine langanhaltende kommunikative Resonanz (in der scientific community) erzeugen. Kommunikative Resonanz aber [...]

Klassiker haben, entgegen eines weitverbreiteten Vorurteils, keinen privilegierten Zugang zur Erkenntnis. Ein Autor wird vielmehr dann und nur dann zu einem 'Klassiker', wenn seine Texte eine langanhaltende kommunikative Resonanz (in der scientific community) erzeugen. Kommunikative Resonanz aber [...]

The interdisciplinary approach in determining human rights arises because of the nature of human rights which are not only a legal phenomenon, but the phenomenon of other sciences. Such an approach of human rights will enable us to determine the roots of human rights, their structure and content, as [...]

How many different ways there are to construct a construction of law? All the different pillars that hold the construction of law must be based on faith and reason in order for the construction to be preserved. Observation of the pillars of law from the level of faith and reason gives us a valid [...]

Is it possible for law to squeeze out values, since the nihilism towards values leads towards the rejection of the major role of the law, which is the protection and realization of values? Does the legal norm, as the part of law turned into the command, really have for its goal to establish the [...]

Der Inhalt der Ökosophie ist der unaufhebbare Zusammenhang der fünf ökonomischen Elementargrößen Kapital, Vermögen, Geld, Kosten und Erträgnisse zu der elementaren ökonomischen Lebensordnung, die durch die Arbeitsteilung eine Notwendigkeit geworden ist. Die Aufgaben der ökonomischen Ordnung sind [...]

D. Gutterer: Die Idee der Philosophie. - Chr. Thiel: Die Unwissenschaftlichkeit der Wissenschaftstheorie. – G. Haas: Philosophie: Probleme und kein Ende. – G. Wolandt: Philosophie, Geschichte, Wissenschaften. – R. Lüthe: Sinn und Inhalt der philosophischen Frage – Frage nach der Geschichte. – H. [...]

Kaum ein anderer Begriff der aristotelischen Philosophie dürfte seinen Interpreten so viele Auslegungsprobleme bereitet haben wie der der Hypolepsis. Die gängige Interpretation dieses Begriffs im Sinne von 'Annahme' bzw. 'Vermutung' versperrt vielfach den Zugang zu den Stellen des Corpus [...]

englischDigitization has extensive effects on various areas of life in society and individuals. The book examines these impacts from a socio-philosophical point of view and considers issues of identity, knowledge, communication, and power in the context of digitization. It also addresses the impact [...]

englischHomer and Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle: four great authors, who have let the essence of Greek culture appear with special clarity, are the focus of the collected essays by the Tübingen classical Greek scholar Thomas Alexander Szlezák. His approach to the poetic as to the philosophical [...]

englischThis new interpretation of the central books of Plato's Republic differs from the consensus of 20th century interpreters mainly in three basic points. (1) It is shown that Aristotle's picture (in Metaph. A 6) of Plato's philosophy is not at variance with the text of the Republic, further (2) [...]

Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) war von 1805 bis zu seiner Absetzung im Jahre 1820 Professor für Religionswissenschaft an der Universität Prag. Mit dieser Professur war die Aufgabe verbunden, an Sonntagen und hohen Feiertagen sogenannte Exhortationen bzw. Erbauungsreden für alle Hörer der [...]

englischThis volume presents seminal texts of the Japanese Zen-Master Dôgen (1200-1253) on the problem of body and mind in a new German translation with extensive commentary and philosophical analysis. The body-mind-problem continues to draw a lot of attention, fuelled by an accelerated scientific [...]

englischThe book contains a monograph study on Husserl's notion of empty intentionality. The function of empty intentions is illustrated for the phenomenological theories of meaning, perception and inner time consciousness. Signitive and intuitive intentions can be grouped into different classes [...]

englischThe concept of something runs like a red thread through Husserl's explanations of the phenomenological theory of intentionality. "Something" is what we mean even when we use fictional and contradictory expressions. In the words of Emile Benveniste, how can this "something" be demarcated from [...]

englischHow can the "foolish" and "mad" moral philosopher La Mettrie be explained? Manfred Starke's starting point is La Mettrie's torn nature: in philosophical terms between his pessimistic, sceptical and positive, constructive tendencies, in political terms between his liberal-anarchist and [...]

englischFrom Plato’s dialogues emerges a picture of philosophy, in which the personal attitude of the interlocutor is of great importance. This book aims to show that it is always encouraged to take a favourable position both towards the people involved in the conversation and towards the topic of [...]

englischThis book is the first German translation of Proclus's Stoicheiosis Theologike and follows Dodds's text, which is included unchanged. An introduction begins by locating the text among Proclus's other works and Neo-Platonism in general. In doing so, it emphasises the philosophically relevant [...]

Obwohl Wittgenstein nach eigenen Angaben vergleichsweise wenige Philosophen gelesen hat, lassen sich doch häufig Aufzeichnungen finden, die auf Ähnlichkeiten mit anderen Denkern hinweisen.Während diese Verbindungen zu zeitgenössischen Autoren in der Rezeption ausführlich erörtert werden, gibt es zu [...]

Der spätlateinische Schriftsteller Apuleius (ca. 125-180) ist vor allem durch seinen Roman 'Der goldene Esel' bekannt. Die Antike schätzte Apuleius aber auch als Rhetor und Philosoph. Die ihm zugeschriebene Schrift 'Platon und seine Lehre' enthält die älteste ganz überlieferte Platonbiographie sowie [...]

The essays collected in this volume focus on Aristotle's notion of nous (usually translated as 'intellect','mind' or simply 'thinking') in Aristotle's works. They aim at elucidating the status and the function of the intellectual faculty in the context of Aristotle's analysis of the faculties of the [...]

englischThe essays collected in this book reach behind the various fields of philosophy and theology, such as ontology and epistemology, anthropology and ethics, philosophy of history and history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and theory of mystique. The themes and problems discussed here are [...]

englischBibliographia Praesocratica differs from others with respect to the approach adopted, the kind and the quantity of the material collected and in respect to the way it was organized. This Bibliography encompasses a period spanning five and a half centuries (1450-2000), i. e. from the [...]

In seiner Wissenschaftslehre präsentierte Bernard Bolzano 1837 die Definition einer Implikationsbeziehung, die er Ableitbarkeit nannte. Nachdem seine Definition in unserem Jahrhundert überhaupt erst zur Kenntnis genommen wurde, ist wiederholt geschrieben worden, Bolzano habe in ihr gewisse Ideen der [...]

englischThis is a second edition of what has come to be regarded as the authoritative text of the B-fragments of Anaxagoras.As before, the main purpose of this work has been to present an improved text and critical apparatus for the direct quotations attributed to Anaxagoras, based largely on a [...]

englischSeubert’s book analyses the digital revolution by transcending euphoria and fears of the apocalypse. He conceives digitalisation as an all-encompassing media change on a similar level to the invention of printing books and thus incisively and profoundly interprets the transformations in [...]

englischThis book provides an overall account of the history of philosophy in the 20th century from a clear philosophical perspective. It shows the new departure in philosophical thinking through Frege and Husserl: The validity of philosophical thinking emancipated itself from psychology and [...]

This book offers a distinctive interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. It suggests that Hegel's approach in the 1807 Phenomenology is akin to Socratic 'midwifery'. In Plato's Theaetetus Socrates (the midwife) elicits from Theaetetus his views on the nature of knowledge, without imposing [...]

Zufall - Begriff für einen Sachverhalt, der seit jeher Gegenstand heftiger Kontroversen ist. Die Studie verfolgt die Entwicklung des Begriffs in der Philosophiegeschichte im Hinblick auf G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716). Die Konfrontation seiner rationalistischen Metaphysik mit dem irrationalen Zufall [...]

englischIndia is one of the fastest changing countries in the world. The rules of global competition clash with the subcontinent's cultural traditions in all their variety. This study examines the mutual influence and transformation between these complexes by reference to two prominent examples.The [...]

englischParmenides is not a philosopher in the present-day sense of the word. He is so little a philosopher, that, in order to found classical philosophy, Plato has to commit parricide. Indeed Parmenides is rather the thinker of an epoch-making transition, the cultural link between pre-philosophical [...]

englischThe articles in this volume are a selection of the papers presented at the Sixth Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society in Jerusalem.They reflect the breadth of topics and the range of problems present in Plato's Laws: Problems of editing and literary form, rhetoric and [...]

Euthydemus was for a long time and until quite recently a neglected dialogue of Plato, almost by common accord treated as a motley collection of barely disguised sophistic fallacies. This book shows not only that the dialogue is to be taken seriously, but also that it is, in fact, a very important [...]

The present volume is the PhD thesis of Samuel Scolnicov, co-founder of the International Plato Society, published posthumously to illustrate the foundation of his interest in the 'core Plato'. The issues raised in this thesis are now of wider interest than they were then and many of his theses [...]

englischThe idea of integrative bioethics cannot be separated from the concept of education. What we have to let the human being know can only be said to him in the most firm way and lasting way as a disciple and as a person still learning, as someone who has not yet given up the question concerning [...]

englischThe 'Natural' is not founded on any code, program, system or design from which the uniqueness and the strivings of those beings who belong to it can be deduced and explained. Nature is no artifact; rather it is the opposite of all that is artificial. The Natural reveals itself in the network [...]

englischWhat do we live and work for? What holds us together? In the Western tradition, the answer to these questions has always relied on the concept of the common good. But is it also suitable for a globalised world? In this volume, the concept of the gift as the meaning of all social exchange is [...]

englischMedicine and Politics are powers, systems, machines. They have their own logic and powers, almost irresistible for human individuals. In a democratic state, only the law can defend the individual's interests against these social forces. But the human individual itself is not an ideal being: [...]

It was in ancient Greek philosophy where the idea arose that there is a supreme law before which any civil law created by human societies has to be justified. Since then the concept of natural law not only remained one of the paradigms of Western civilization but has shaped the development of [...]

englischThis book on the one hand offers in a consciously planned way a broad and exciting intercultural as well as interdisciplinary approach to the question whether human rights and social identity are compatible. This approach does not try to standardise the different attitudes between eastern [...]

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 [...]

This volume is dedicated to culturally different ways of the exposition, reconstruction, and reformulation of a whole range of classical philosophical issues: Ethics and theology, cultural particularity and humanistic universality, man and nature, heaven and earth, Eastern and Western values, [...]

Nach ihren 'Weltbildern' unterscheidet man die Menschen verschiedener Epochen und Kulturen. Um andere zu verstehen, versuchen wir uns in ihr 'Weltbild' einzudenken. Offenbar erschließt sich uns die Welt als Bild.Seit jeher hat die Philosophie sogar den Menschen, also uns selbst, nach dem Modell von [...]

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 [...]

Wie ist die kollektive Identität von Gemeinschaften mit den Vorstellungen der Menschen über ein mögliches Leben nach dem Tod - oder allgemeiner: über einen Sinn des Daseins, der ihr individuelles Leben übersteigt - verknüpft? Was bringt überhaupt Menschen dazu, sich mit etwas zu identifizieren, das [...]

englischTime does not have a beginning nor an end in time. Therefore the question about the limits of time inevitably leads to the philosophical mystery of its origin. Does the existence of time require an absolute which is beyond time? Or is it at least connected to the beginning and the end of [...]

Für die heutigen Debatten über das Verhältnis des Menschen zur Natur und über die Weisen geistiger Weltaneignung sind die Denkansätze Kants unverzichtbar. Die Autoren der in dem vorliegenden Band zusammengefaßten Studien zur Kritik der Urteilskraft wenden sich den Kantischen Problemstellungen und [...]

Im Juni 1995 wurde von den Philosophischen Instituten der Universitäten Salzburg und Ljubljana eine Forschungskooperation in Form eines gemeinsamen Symposiums gestartet, aus deren Ergebnissen der vorliegende Band resultiert. Er enthält neue Ergebnisse der Logik im Überschneidungsfeld von [...]

In der Athanasia skizziert Bernard Bolzano seine bikategoriale Ontologie des Wirklichen wie folgt: 'Alles, was ist, d. h. in Wirklichkeit besteht, [...] gehört zu einer von folgenden zwei Arten: es ist und besteht entweder an etwas Anderem, als Beschaffenheit desselben, oder es ist nicht eine bloße [...]

englischBeyond Hegelianism and it being superficially updated, Hegel’s authentic thinking in his awareness and assessment of problems remains relevant. Despite great progress in recent years, to date Hegel’s work has neither been fully edited nor sufficiently assimilated due to its complexity. This [...]

englischThe new volume contains an editorial part, an interpretative part and an informative part. An edition of the correspondence between the Hegel student Heinrich Gustav Hotho and Varnhagen von Ense deals with the editing of the "Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Kritik" (H. Schneider and W. [...]

Aus dem Inhalt: Editionen: Carola Hoécker, Helmuth Mojem: 'Theuerste Freundin'. Briefe Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Breyers und Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegels an Nanette Endel - Hegels Vorlesung über Ästhetik 1828/29 (Einleitung), Hrsg. von Helmut SchneiderAufsätze: Detlev Pätzold, Fichte und Hegel über [...]

Aus dem Inhalt:Edition: Burkhard Mojsisch, Klaus J. Schmidt: Ein neu entdeckter Hegel-Brief vom 18. März 1826 - Aufsätze: Hans-Martin Sass: An early Hegelian Vision of the Internet. Ernst Kapp's 1845 Philosophy of cultivating space and time - Georg Werckmeister: Dreieck und Begriff - Gilles [...]

Aus dem Inhalt: Editionen: Helmut Schneider: Hegel und Hotho bei den Dürer-Feiern 1828 in BerlinAufsätze: Martin Bondeli: Kants Antinomienlehre aus der Sicht des jungen Hegel - Udo Reinhold Jeck: Schelling und Hegels Jenaer Forschungen über spezifische Schwere und Kohäsion - Ock-Kyoung Kim: Das Sich [...]

Aus dem Inhalt: Teil 1. Bilanz und Perspektiven der Hegelforschung in Frankreich, zusammengestellt und eingeleitet von Norbert Waszek: Norbert Waszek: Einleitung - Jacques D'Hondt: Que faire de Hegel? – Bernard Bourgeois: Hegel in Frankreich – Myriam Bienenstock: Die französische Rezeption von [...]

Editionen: Helmuth Kreysing · Boris Uexkülls. Aufzeichnungen zur Naturphilosophie HegelsAufsätze zu Hegels Ästhetik: Isak Winkel Holm · Tragödie und Tribunal. Zur Sprache des Tragödienhelden in der Phänomenologie des Geistes - Evangelia Sembou · Antigone and Lysistrata in G.W.F. Hegel's [...]