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 [...]