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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Heraclitus"”.
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
… rhetoric and ecology. Studying the works of Heraclitus, Francis Bacon, T.H. Huxley and Darwin as "bridge figures" in the history of rhetoric, science and ecological thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and strategies (as discursive practices, performances and techniques) form a …
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Nietzsche and classical greek philosophy: Essays on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus
… of Nietzsche’s engagement with Plato and Heraclitus.</p>
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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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Heraclitus’ Cosmology as a Radical and Logically Consistent Rejection of the Milesian Metaphysical Scheme
This thesis argues that Heraclitus presents a radical departure from, rather than a continuation of, the Milesian metaphysical tradition. In Chapter I, I offer a critical examination of the Milesian scheme and argue that its defining characteristic is the notion of a single supreme substance which …
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Eleusis contra delphi: the idea of eternal return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek mystery cults
… on recurrence, with a particular emphasis on Heraclitus and the Greek mystery cults. As I shall demonstrate, one would have ground to trace the thought of eternal return to the Heraclitean fragment B52, which, through the notion of αἰών, asserts the ever-youthful and ever-repeating cycles of …
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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
… research draws from various sources, including Heraclitus, who presents an implicit theory of action in his account of '*logos*'. This theory proposes a framework in which the success of decision-making including ethical and political decision-making hinges upon a comprehensive grasp of *logos*. …
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In the Shadow of Anaximander: Philosophical Temperaments and Schopenhauerian Pessimism in Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
… with the Anaximandrian problem. The first is Heraclitus, for whom Nietzsche is unambiguous in his admiration. Heraclitus celebrates the vicissitudes of becoming, seeing the conflict and impermanence as being justice itself. This leads to the Heraclitean metaphors of justice as competition, …
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A sketch of the logos doctrine from Heraclitus to Philo, with special reference to its relation to the logos doctrine of the New Testament
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1894
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Karl R. Popper lettore dei presocratici
… of Xenophanes (section 2), to the change in Heraclitus (section 3), as well as to the relationship between Parmenides, Xenophanes and Heraclitus (section 1). The two final sections are dedicated to reconstruction of Anaximander (section 4) and Democritus (section 5). Chapter III focuses on …
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Building Life Cycles: An Exploration of a Building's Transformation From One Life Into the Next
"Nothing endures but change" - Heraclitus. Buildings are designed and built to house a specific program for a set period of time. The end of a building's life marks a change in its use. In today's building practices, some building owners opt to demolish an entire building prior to constructing a …
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Nothing Remains Still: Stories and a Novella
… or artificial stagnation. In this context, the Heraclitus quote, "All entities move, and nothing remains still," which acts as the novella's epigraph, serves to introduce a kind of cosmological conceit concerning bodies of matter and how the study of physics situates inanimate objects. I had my …
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Transformation Paradox: A Framework for the Analysis of Politics in Enterprise Transformations
… a dialectical analysis approach (Hegel, 1989; Heraclitus, 1979; Pinkard, 1988; Skinner, 1978a, 1978b) and conduct an evaluation of the framework validity. The framework is constructed using a dialectical analysis of concepts stemming from the work of Alford and Friedland (1992) and considers …
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"The Protean Essence of Logos: Problematization of Language and Indefinability of Knowlege as Perception in Plato's ""Theaetetus"
… Protagoras' man-as-measure doctrine, and Heraclitus' ontology of flux, though apparently cogent, is ultimately vitiated by the fact that all these logoi are internally inconsistent with one another. In the next chapter, I look at the reception of these interconnected theories by the …
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Melancholy Figures: From Bosch to Titian
… by Raphael's depiction of the melancholy Heraclitus in The School of Athens, which I accept as portrait of Michelangelo; articulated in his poetry, the artist's self-identification as melancholic is visually declared in his Last Judgment. Chapter Three addresses the works of Hieronymus …
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"The Return of Adam to Paradise Lost: Camus' ""Le Premier Homme"
… love for the presocratic 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 …
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Democritus and the Critical Tradition
… work is attributed (Anaximander, 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 …
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Platonic Interpretation is Set in Wax, Not Stone: Evidence for a Developmentalist Reading of <i>Theaetetus</i> 151-187
Interpreting Plato is a difficult, divisive affair. This is particularly apparent in the <i>Theaetetus</i> where there are two primary interpretations of the first definition of knowledge—Reading A and Reading B, Unitarian and Developmentalist interpretations respectively. Reading A claims Plato …