Weisheit Und Wissenschaft Studien Zu Pythagoras Philolaos Und Platon Lore And Science In Ancient Pythagoreanism Translated By Edwin L Minar Jr

Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498517874

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The Guardians in Action by William H. F. Altman Pdf

If you’ve ever wondered why Plato staged Timaeus as a kind of sequel to Republic, or who its unnamed missing fourth might be; or why he joined Critias to Timaeus, and whether or not that strange dialogue is unfinished; or what we should make of the written critique of writing in Phaedrus, and of that dialogue’s apparent lack of unity; or what is the purpose of the long discussion of the One in the second half of Parmenides, and how it relates to the objections made to the Theory of Forms in its first half; or if the revisionists or unitarians are right about Philebus, and why its Socrates seems less charming than usual, or whether or not Cratylus takes place after Euthyphro, and whether its far-fetched etymologies accomplish any serious philosophical purpose; or why the philosopher Socrates describes in the central digression of Theaetetus is so different from Socrates himself; then you will enjoy reading the continuation of William H. F. Altman’s Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington; 2012), where he considers the pedagogical connections behind “the post-Republic dialogues” from Timaeus to Theaetetus in the context of “the Reading Order of Plato’s dialogues.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004701878

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Plato’s Gorgias: Speech, Soul and Politics by Anonim Pdf

In the Gorgias Plato offers a synthesis of what he thinks about the bitter conflict between philosophical and non-philosophical approaches to one’s responsibilities in private and public life. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of this historically and conceptually rich canvas by shedding light on its main topics: speech in its philosophical and non-philosophical forms, psychology in relation to virtuous life, and politics which charges the two former topics with high stakes that call for personal choices.

Author : Alex Citkin,Ioannis M. Vandoulakis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031068430

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V.A. Yankov on Non-Classical Logics, History and Philosophy of Mathematics by Alex Citkin,Ioannis M. Vandoulakis Pdf

This book is dedicated to V.A. Yankov’s seminal contributions to the theory of propositional logics. His papers, published in the 1960s, are highly cited even today. The Yankov characteristic formulas have become a very useful tool in propositional, modal and algebraic logic. The papers contributed to this book provide the new results on different generalizations and applications of characteristic formulas in propositional, modal and algebraic logics. In particular, an exposition of Yankov’s results and their applications in algebraic logic, the theory of admissible rules and refutation systems is included in the book. In addition, the reader can find the studies on splitting and join-splitting in intermediate propositional logics that are based on Yankov-type formulas which are closely related to canonical formulas, and the study of properties of predicate extensions of non-classical propositional logics. The book also contains an exposition of Yankov’s revolutionary approach to constructive proof theory. The editors also include Yankov’s contributions to history and philosophy of mathematics and foundations of mathematics, as well as an examination of his original interpretation of history of Greek philosophy and mathematics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004443358

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought by Anonim Pdf

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought explores both explicit and hidden influences of Presocratic (6-4th c. BCE) early scientific concepts, such as nature, elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in Platonic, Aristotelian, and Hippocratic philosophy

Author : J. B. Rives
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197648919

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Animal Sacrifice in the Roman Empire (31 Bce-395 Ce) by J. B. Rives Pdf

For over a thousand years, the practice of animal sacrifice held a central place in ancient Graeco-Roman culture as a means of both demonstrating piety to the gods and structuring social relationships. As Christianity took root in Rome in the third century CE, the cultural role of this practice changed dramatically. In Animal Sacrifice in the Roman Empire (31 BCE-395 CE), J. B. Rives explores the shifting socio-economic, political, and cultural significance of animal sacrifice in this crucial period of change. Drawing on literary, epigraphic, archaeological, art historical, philosophical, and scriptural evidence, this volume provides a comprehensive and detailed study of the central role of animal sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world and traces the changes in its social function and cultural significance during the period when that world became Christianized. By focusing on the evolution of this specific cultural practice, Rives illustrates the larger phenomenon of the religious and cultural transformation taking place in the Graeco-Roman world in the third and fourth centuries CE, providing a unique perspective which will appeal to scholars across religious and classical studies.

Author : Thomas Söderqvist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317028901

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The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography by Thomas Söderqvist Pdf

Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are complemented by narratives that emphasize the importance of the scientific subject in the production of science. Not least is the realization that the role of science in culture is much more accessible when presented through the lives of its practitioners. Taken as a genre, such biographies play an important role in the public understanding of science. In recent years there has been an increasing number of monographs and collections about biography in general and literary biography in particular. However, biographies of scientists, engineers and medical doctors have rarely been the topic of scholarly inquiry. As such this volume of essays will be welcomed by those interested in the genre of science biography, and who wish to re-examine its history, foundational problems and theoretical implications. Borrowing approaches and methods from cultural studies and the history, philosophy and sociology of science, the contributions cover a broad range of subjects, periods and locations. By presenting such a rich diversity of essays, the volume is able to chart the reoccurring conceptual problems and devices that have influenced scientific biographies from classical antiquity to the present day. In so doing it provides a compelling overview of the history of the genre, suggesting that the different valuations given scientific biography over time have been largely fuelled by vested professional interests.

Author : Hildegard Temporini,Wolfgang Haase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Rome
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012047655

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Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Principat. v by Hildegard Temporini,Wolfgang Haase Pdf

Author : Arnold Hermann
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972445

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TO THINK LIKE GOD by Arnold Hermann Pdf

This book is the scholarly & fully annotated edition of the award-winning The Illustrated To Think Like God. To Think Like God focuses on the emergence of philosophy as a speculative science, tracing its origins to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy, from the late 6th century to mid-5th century B.C. Special attention is paid to the sage Pythagoras and his movement, the poet Xenophanes of Colophon, and the lawmaker Parmenides of Elea. In their own ways, each thinker held that true insight, whether as wisdom or certainty, belonged not to mortal human beings but to the gods.The Pythagoreans sought to approach this otherwordly knowledge by studying numerical relationships, believing them to govern the universe, and that those who know the number of a thing know its true nature. Yet their quest was a hopeless one, bogged down by cultism, numerology, political conspiracies, bloody uprisings, and exile. Above all, number did not turn out as the most reliable of mediums; it was certainly not a key to the realm of the divine. Thus, their contributions to philosophy's inception, while much better-publicized, was not the most significant. That particular role was reserved for an unusual challenge and the elaborate reaction it provoked.

Author : Paul Bishop
Publisher : Chiron Publications
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781630518608

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Reading Goethe at Midlife by Paul Bishop Pdf

This book explores the history of the idea of the midlife crisis, using the writings of C.G. Jung and Goethe to investigate its relevance for today. Tracing how “the ages of humankind” became “the stages of life” in which the midlife crisis represents a pivotal moment, Paul Bishop offers a detailed analysis of a paper by Jung on this subject. He then shifts the focus to Goethe’s interest in Orphic wisdom, and one of Goethe’s major later poems, “Primal Words. Orphic” (Urworte Orphisch). Using Jungian ideas to explore the psychological implications of this poem, Bishop draws on Goethe’s own commentary, and other background material, to uncover its vital message. Reading Goethe at Midlife reveals the remarkable symmetry between the ideas and Jung and Goethe. Jung’s analysis of the stages of life, and his advice to heed the “call of the self,” are brought into the conjunction with Goethe’s emphasis on the importance of hope, showing an underlying continuity of thought and relevance from ancient wisdom, via German classicism to analytical psychology. At a time when many Jungians are turning to neuroscience to provide an external underpinning for Analytical Psychology, this scholarly book is very welcome: it returns to psychology’s home territory, placing Jung firmly in a long cultural tradition. Impressively well-read in many fields extending from literature and the history of ideas to psychoanalysis and Jungian studies, Paul Bishop allows a text by Jung and a late poem by Goethe to mirror and enhance each other, demonstrating Jung's intellectual proximity to the tradition of German classicism. The wealth of “amplifications” that Bishop brings to the many themes treated allows us to experience a living reality—a continuity of ideas across different times and cultures.

Author : Anna-Maria Hartmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192534743

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English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650 by Anna-Maria Hartmann Pdf

Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English mythographies have not gained sustained critical attention, largely because they have been wrongly considered mere copies of their European counterparts. This volume focuses on the English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647 by Stephen Batman, Abraham Fraunce, Francis Bacon, Henry Reynolds, and Alexander Ross: it places their texts into a wider, European context to reveal their unique English take on the genre and also unfolds the significant role myth played in the broader culture of the period, influencing not only literary life, natural philosophy and poetics, but also religious conflicts and Civil War politics. In doing so it demonstrates, for the first time, the considerable explanatory value classical mythology holds for the study of the English Renaissance and its literary culture in particular, and how early modern England answered a question we still find fascinating today: what is myth?

Author : Louis H. Feldman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047408734

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Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered by Louis H. Feldman Pdf

This book is a collection of 26 previously published articles, with a number of additions and corrections, and a long new introduction on "The Influence of Hellenism on Jews in Palestine in the Hellenistic Period."

Author : John Braisted Carman,Mark Juergensmeyer,William Darrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521344484

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A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics by John Braisted Carman,Mark Juergensmeyer,William Darrow Pdf

This bibliography is the culmination of four years' work by a team of noted scholars; its annotated entries are organised by religious tradition and cover each tradition's central concepts, offering a judicious selection of primary and secondary works as well as recommendations of cross-cultural topics to be explored. Specialists in the history and literature of religions and comparative religion will find this bibliography a valuable research tool.

Author : Thomas J. Mathiesen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803230796

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Apollo's Lyre by Thomas J. Mathiesen Pdf

Ancient Greek music and music theory has fascinated scholars for centuries not only because of its intrinsic interest as a part of ancient Greek culture but also because the Greeks? grand concept of music has continued to stimulate musical imaginations to the present day. Unlike earlier treatments of the subject, Apollo?s Lyre is aimedøprincipally at the reader interested in the musical typologies, the musical instruments, and especially the historical development of music theory and its transmission through the Middle Ages. The basic method and scope of the study are set out in a preliminary chapter, followed by two chapters concentrating on the role of music in Greek society, musical typology, organology, and performance practice. The next chapters are devoted to the music theory itself, as it developed in three stages: in the treatises of Aristoxenus and the Sectio canonis; during the period of revival in the second century C.E.; and in late antiquity. Each theorist and treatise is considered separately but always within the context of the emerging traditions. The theory provides a remarkably complete and coherent system for explaining and analyzing musical phenomena, and a great deal of its conceptual framework, as well as much of its terminology, was borrowed and adapted by medieval Latin, Byzantine, and Arabic music theorists, a legacy reviewed in the final chapter. Transcriptions and analyses of some of the more complete pieces of Greek music preserved on papyrus or stone, or in manuscript, are integrated with a consideration of the musicopoetic types themselves. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography for the field, updating and expanding the author?s earlier Bibliography of Sources for the Study of Ancient Greek Music.

Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783722303

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Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism by Walter Burkert Pdf

For the first English edition of his distinguished study, Weisheit und Wissenschaft: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philoloas und Platon , Mr. Burkert has extensively revised both text and notes, taking into account additional literature that has appeared since 1962.

Author : British Library (London),Jim Emmett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117805544

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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 by British Library (London),Jim Emmett Pdf