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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Presocratic philosophy"”.
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"Nothing that is not Zeus" the unknowability of the Gods and the limits of human knowledge in Sophoclean tragedy
… unknowability in archaic Greek literature and in Presocratic philosophy. There follows a detailed examination of the extant plays one by one (with special emphasis on the close reading of practically all the choral odes), by means of which the author endeavours to demonstrate that the centrality …
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Plato's Principles of Causation
… can trace these assumptions back before Plato to Presocratic philosophy and forward to the Aristotelian or Peripatetic tradition, and even beyond. The assumptions had a deep and far-reaching influence on ancient thought beyond Plato’s dialogues, and so we should not be surprised if Plato has no …
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The Epistemology of Artefact Comparisons in Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine
… of artefact comparisons in early Greek natural philosophy and medicine. Various thinkers frequently employed the structure and/or functioning of man-made artefacts to improve their understanding of a target domain in which direct observation is hindered or impossible, such as in meteorology, …
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ΘΑΛΗΣ Ο ΜΙΛΗΣΙΟΣ-ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΗ ΩΣ ΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ
… THE PROBLEM WHICH AROSE IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, SINCE IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT THALES OF MILETUS IS NOT A PHILOSOPHER. THIS POSITION, WHICH WAS SUPPORTED MAINLY IN OUR CENTURY BYCERTAIN SCHOLARS, IS OPPOSED TO THE TRADITIONAL VIEW, ACCORDING TO WHICH THALES OF MILETUS IS REGARDED AS THE …