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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Plato, Aristotle"”.
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Nietzsche and classical greek philosophy: Essays on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus
… precise nature of Nietzsche’s view of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle? I answer this question over four chapters. Each chapter is a self-contained essay that explores the contours of Nietzsche’s ambivalence toward these figures. In Chapter I I show how Nietzsche’s ambivalence toward Socrates is a …
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Henri Bergson and the Superiority Theory of Humor
… in particular with emphasis on the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Hobbes. Next, I discuss Francis Hutcheson and Camille Atkinson?s, a contemporary writer, criticisms of Hobbes and the superiority theory of humor respectively. Finally, after an interpretation of Bergson?s theory as a …
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The strategic use of passion in rhetoric.
… thesis explores how selected theorists including Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Frances Bacon, George Campbell, I.A. Richards, Kenneth Burke, and Richard Weaver, have treated the controversy between the appeal to logic as opposed to the appeal to the passions.
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Philosopher Kings, Then and Now: The Political Philosophy of IQ
… by investigating the role of intelligence for Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and contemporary psychometricians. Whereas intelligence has a moral dimension for the classical philosophers, Machiavelli emphasized the use of prudence in the service of ambition. Contemporary psychometrics presents …
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Studies in the Regulation of Gastric Acidity
… or from the ideas of the Romans. | Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, taught that gastric digestion was brought about by a sort of internal cooking or coction, possibly through the agency of the "innate heat11 of the body, derived from the blood,one of the four cardinal fluids. | And this was …
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The Subject of Voice: The Object of Rhetoric
… through Lacanian psychoanalytic readings of Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian, contemporary compositionists, and religious rituals.</p>
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Simplicius as a source for and an interpreter of Parmenides
… Argument for the Unity of Being; (VII) Plato on Parmenides; (VIII) Aristotle on Parmenides; (IX) Others on Parmenides. Each section contains a summary; for I-V commentary is provided. The verses of Parmenides quoted by Simplicius, along with variant readings, as reported in CAG VII, IX …
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Sacral Citizenship: Philosophies of the City from Plato to Augustine
… the city and of citizenship in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Augustine in their historical contexts. Aristotle is considered as a critic of Plato and Augustine of Cicero, with Cicero considered as poised between Plato and the Stoic legacy. The aim of this examination is to test …
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A Case for Music as Therapy: “Healing and Purgation,” and the Expressiveness of Music from Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century
… the Enlightenment. Included are the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Marsilio Ficino, René Descartes, Gioseffo Zarlino, Athanasius Kircher, Robert Burton, Richard Browne, among other thinkers. Their lofty subjects, though seemingly broad, have more often than not been interrelated and were once …
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<i>Cangianti</i> and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
… 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 and Paul Kay …
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Proclus on Aristotle on Plato. A Case Study on Motion
… on Proclus (412–485 AD) and his engagement with Aristotle’s theory of motion with a specific focus on Aristotle’s criticism of Plato. There are two main goals. (i) I refute the widespread view that Proclus – in line with other Neoplatonists – adheres to the idea of an essential harmony between …
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Play Among the Ruins: David Jones, Meaning, and Play
… theoretical uses of the word by thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Schiller. Chapter 1 then considers play in the context of aesthetic interpretation. The chapter examines the ways that Jones’s reviewers have applied constricting models of interpretation to his poetic and visual work and …
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Sex, Metaphysics, and Mental 'Dis-ease'
… source of this metaphysical discontent to be the Platonic/Aristotelian conception of essence (or form) as a purely immaterial, male preserve, thereby reducing woman to the material source, (Logical) properties and (sexual) demise of man’s essential being; this phallocentric misconception impelling …
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DIM Theory Applied to Law: The Disintegration of American Law
<p>Plato, Aristotle, and Montesquieu each argued the importance of law to political regime and Constitution. The ancients emphasized the law as the rational component of the regime and Montesquieu applied some of the first political science to show how political regimes rely upon law. Still, the …
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The Problem of Separation (χωρισμός) and Participation (μέθεξις) in Plato’s Late Dialogues (Parmenides, Sophist, Timaeus) /
… investigation of two fundamental concepts of Plato’s metaphysics – separation (χωρισμός) and participation (μέθεξις), which were used by Plato to describe the relation between sensible particulars and their essences, which Plato called Forms. Such an investigation is necessary due to the …
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
… 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 to have had a lasting influence on the …
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Intuitive and rational approaches to decision making in education
… indeed, it is as old as the history of thought. Plato, Aristotle, Hume, and Kant all recognized that the difference between the two forms of cognition is fundamental. Even today, almost every study of human judgment employs these concepts, implicitly or explicitly" (Hammond, 1996, p.60).A …
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The Philokalia and Mental Wellbeing
… upon a philosophical tradition which draws upon Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and a Christian tradition which, beginning with the New Testament authors, continued through Clement, Origen and the early patristic authors, and found its first flourishing in the Desert Fathers. In particular it …
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The 'Last Philosophy' Enquiring into the 'First': The Influence of Classical Thought on Theodor W. Adorno
Adorno discerned a modern quality in the classical tradition, and by incorporating this tradition into his writings he implied that there is still contemporary relevance in the classical works of the past. Classical philosophy and literature not only provided source material for his theories, but …
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