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 [...]
more informationThis 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 [...]
more informationThis 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 [...]
more informationVasilij 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 [...]
more informationenglischWhat 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. [...]
more informationenglischWhat 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. [...]
more informationThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischTak-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 [...]
more informationenglischTak-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 [...]
more informationenglischDo 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 [...]
more informationenglischDo 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 [...]
more informationenglischIn 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 [...]
more informationAus 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.
more informationBen 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 [...]
more informationEs 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 [...]
more informationDante 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 [...]
more informationDie 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglisch2,500 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 [...]
more informationenglisch2,500 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischIn 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 [...]
more informationenglischIn 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 [...]
more informationThis 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. [...]
more informationDie 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglischFor 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 [...]
more informationenglischFor 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 [...]
more informationKlassiker 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 [...]
more informationKlassiker 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 [...]
more informationThe 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 [...]
more informationHow 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 [...]
more informationIs 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 [...]
more informationDer 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 [...]
more informationD. 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. [...]
more informationKaum 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 [...]
more informationenglischDigitization 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 [...]
more informationenglischDigitization 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 [...]
more informationenglischHomer 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 [...]
more informationenglischHomer 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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) [...]
more informationBernard 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
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