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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Ancient Philosophy"”.
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Philosophical Allurements: Education and Argument in Ancient Philosophy
… pursuits and world-views and towards Platonic philosophy.</p><p> The <italic>Republic</italic> was constructed in a revolutionary period for both texts and teachers, in which texts were beginning to function as a kind of tutor. In my first chapter, "Educating Athens", I survey the changing …
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Principles of Soft Metrology and measurement procedures in humans
… of perception, a key topic of the history of philosophy. Since Plato and Boethius, passing through all the history of Greek and Indian ancient philosophy, getting to the modern era with Descartes and Hume until reaching contemporary philosophy of mind, human perception has been always a …
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Women in Early Pythagoreanism
… chapter, I compare Pythagorean societies with ancient Greek political clubs and religious sects. Compared to mainland Greece, South Italian women enjoyed higher legal and socio-political status. Similarly, religious groups included female initiates, assigning them authoritative roles. …
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Karl R. Popper lettore dei presocratici
… projection of the falsificationism on the ancient philosophy and also on the paradoxical fall into the historicism by an avowedly anti-historicist philosopher. The only significant exception is the strong affinity of Giovanni Cerri with Popper, which however does not prevent points of …
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The Ontology, Etiology, and Moral Psychology of Action: Aristotle and Today
Aristotle’s theory of action answers two central questions in Action Theory today: What causes action? What role do psychological attitudes play in action? Chapter 1 dispels misunderstandings about Aristotle’s theory of causation. Influential interpretations assume that Aristotle’s material, …
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Epicurus' legacy: succession and continuity in the institutional history of the Athenian Garden
This dissertation explores the historical reality of the Epicurean school’s flagship Athenian community (the “Garden") as an intellectual institution. In particular, it investigates the philosophical and pragmatic considerations that determined the approach Epicurus and his successors adopted to …
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Truth, Knowledge, and the Value of False Belief in Plato
In this dissertation, I challenge common readings of Plato according to which epistemic vice is either always bad, or is merely beneficial for non-philosophers. On my reading, false beliefs and defective forms of reasoning can benefit everyone in two ways. First, there are commitments--to care for …
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Thinking about Acting: The use of causal knowledge for the sake of intentional action in Heraclitus, Hippocratic On Regimen and Democritus
… action within the scope of early Greek philosophy and medicine. I investigate how knowledge influences both the intention behind an action and its successful delivery. Specifically, I look at the works of authors who discuss a particular type of knowledge that I refer to as 'knowledge of …
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The Golden Chain: Redrawing the map of ancient allegory
This PhD thesis discusses the concept of allegory from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. In the first chapter, which discusses the hermeneutics of allegorical reading in the late Archaic and Classical periods, I aim to show that previous discussions have misunderstood both the texts which …
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The Mythology of Ecphrasis in Rome and Roman Greece (50 BC - 500 AD)
… Rome: namely, to read it as privileged space for philosophy. This interdisciplinary thesis foregrounds this philosophical approach to better understand the complex role ecphrasis played in Roman literature and culture. In particular, the thesis contends that many imperial ecphrases describe Greek …
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Traditional Gods and Civic Religion in Plato’s Later Dialogues
Two types of divinities predominate in Plato’s later dialogues, the traditional and cosmic gods. This thesis focuses on the traditional gods and inquires into their cosmological status and function in the Timaeus and the Critias as well as the ethical value of civic religion in the Laws. In the …
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Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
… have affected not only the perception of ancient mathematics (giving undue emphasis to systematist texts, despite evidence that the heurists were the larger school), but also the development of modern mathematical methods.</p>
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
… how Whitehead foregrounded Plato as symbolic of philosophy’s ideal goals and methodologies; fourth, discussion of the reception of Whitehead’s reading of Plato, and how in some connections it has impeded the reception of his thought, and in others (Process philosophy) has received further …
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Plutarch reading Plato: Interpretation and Mythmaking in the Early Empire
… Platonists of the early Roman Empire, built his philosophy by continuously drawing frameworks and models from Plato’s dialogues, both in his works dedicated solely to exegesis and his own lively philosophical dialogues. He both interprets Plato and adapts various models from the Platonic …
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Plato's Principles of Causation
… I show that Plato was by no means alone among ancient philosophers in assuming that the same cause cannot produce opposite effects, that opposite causes cannot produce the same effect, and that an opposite cannot cause an opposite. We can trace these assumptions back before Plato to Presocratic …
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Philosophical Influences in The Art of War found in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
… Three Kingdoms<em>” is an examination of Sunzi’s philosophy about leadership in <em>The Art of War<em> as applied to the moral character, or lack thereof, of historical Han Dynasty leaders, Liu Bei and Cao Cao. In Luo Guanzhong’s <em>The Romance of the Three Kingdoms<em>, the two are fictionalized …
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