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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Presocratics"”.
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Karl R. Popper lettore dei presocratici
Can we evaluate Popper's attention to Presocratics in a broader and varied interpretative framework than that claimed so far by the critics? This work provides arguments to support a general reconsideration of this research question, mainly through a study of the sources used by Popper in reading …
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Authority claims in early Greek cosmologies: a study on Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles
… This thesis examines the relation of the Presocratics with tradition and the respects in which they differ and attempt to mark a new area of expert knowledge. This in turn helps us re-evaluate the authority claims of the Presocratics and to interpret them in connection with the …
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Early Greek Philosophy and the Discovery of Nature
… philosophers that precede Plato, the so-called Presocratics. How did the earliest philosophers conceive of the idea of the nature of things? And to what extent, if any, do the earliest conceptions of nature display purposive features?</p> <p>This dissertation tells the story of the origins and …
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Simplicius as a source for and an interpreter of Parmenides
The importance of Simplicius as source for the Presocratics is widely recognized, yet his interpretations of them have been largely ignored. This study presents a systematic examination of his interpretation of Parmenides with a view to vindicating Simplicius as a serious interpreter of the …
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The Epistemology of Artefact Comparisons in Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine
… on fragments and reports of the so-called ‘Presocratics’, but also encompasses Hippocratic and Pythagorean texts, thereby placing the use of artefact comparisons as an epistemological tool in the sixth to mid-fourth centuries BC in context. This thesis aims to counter a prevalent scholarly …
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Women in Early Pythagoreanism
The sixth-century-BCE Pythagorean communities included both male and female members. This thesis focuses on the Pythagorean women and aims to explore what reasons lie behind the prominence of women in Pythagoreanism and what roles women played in early Pythagorean societies and thought. In the …
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Democritus and the Critical Tradition
<p>Modern scholars cannot agree how extant fragments of thought attributed to Leucippus and Democritus integrate (or do not) to form a coherent perspective on the ancient Greek world. While a certain degree of uncertainty is unavoidable, given the nature of the evidence available and the fact that …
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Plato's Principles of Causation
In the Phaedo at 96a-101c, Plato appears to be committed to the following three negative principles of causation: (1) the same cause cannot produce opposite effects; (2) opposite causes cannot produce the same effect; (3) an opposite cannot cause an opposite. Plato also appears to hold a further, …