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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Empedocles"”.
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Authority claims in early Greek cosmologies: a study on Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles
The aim of this thesis is to examine the nature of the expertise which the first Greek cosmologists pursued, and the way in which they introduced a new area of knowledge. It is also investigates the way in which these early thinkers expressed their personal views, and the way in which they …
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Empedoclean Elegy: Love, Strife and the Four Elements in Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti
… closely identified with the philosopher-poet Empedocles in antiquity. My dissertation has two parts: in the first I demonstrate that in the Amores and Ars Amatoria Ovid connects themes fundamental to his elegiac poetics, such as the interaction of love and war, to the Empedoclean principles of …
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Nietzsche's Ariadne: a new perspective on the eternal recurrence
… his every extant reference to her—from his Empedocles outline to "Ariadne's Lament" and his January 1889 letters—unfolding her as a critique of Woman and as a parodic rejection of Wagnerian Romantic nationalism (as a counter-Brünhilde) in order to arrive, finally, at the point of …
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Aristotle's Aporia about Being and the One: The Background, Discussion and Solution of a Metaphysical Dilemma
… and the Pythagoreans on the one hand and to Empedocles and the physicists on the other. Crucially, it shows that Aristotle not only borrows from the Sophist the arguments which he levels against the pluralists, but also turns the Platonic critique of Parmenides against Plato himself. The …
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"The Return of Adam to Paradise Lost: Camus' ""Le Premier Homme"
… Greek thinkers, such as Heraclitus and Empedocles, and Camus' appreciation for Nietzsche, who envisioned time as an eternal recurrence of the same. In chapter three, I examine the quest for the biological father and his previous textual avatars, along with the ceaseless cycle of …
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Democritus and the Critical Tradition
… Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Philolaus). It demonstrates how each philosopher presumes that his theory offers a universal outlook on human reality, a perspective on the universe which purposely encompasses (and builds into a single theoretical framework) …
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<i>Cangianti</i> and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
… Greek concepts of color, especially those of Empedocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Theophrastus, whose ideas were inseparable from theories of sight. To gain a better understanding of their theories, I investigated color vision, color perception, and color naming. The hypotheses of Brent Berlin …
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
… with a set of key names: in particular, Empedocles, Lucretius; Socrates, Protagoras; Plato, Aristotle; and Pliny, Augustine). Part II follows these traditions into the Renaissance where they intersect in the ‘books of wonder’, among which Paré’s Des monstres et prodiges (1573) is viewed …
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Dwelling within the Material City
What does it mean to truly dwell within a city marked by the cycles of political turnover? How does one carve out for himself a unique sense of belonging in a city with such a grand history? Martin Heidegger suggests that in building "nests" for ourselves, we begin to build our lives. We build our …
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Detection and spectroscopy of single CdSe nanocrystallite quantum dots
Semiconductor nanocrystallites, with size dependent optical properties that have generated considerable interest over the past 10 years, are intrinsically difficult to study due to inhomogeneities in ensemble samples. In this thesis, I describe the motivation and development of an experimental …