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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"ancient Greek philosophy"”.
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Amega: A synthesis of ancient, traditional and contemporary musics
… of L\mega illustrating how music theory and philosophy, as evolved in ancient Greece, showed the path for spiritual development. This came through a symbolic understanding of the notion of cosmos which has determined western culture and can still be a live source of inspiration …
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Early Greek Philosophy and the Discovery of Nature
… of the idea of nature on the development of ancient Greek philosophy. The famous φύσις-νόμος debates of the fifth-century B.C. pit nature against custom as the ultimate guide to human life. Plato’s timeless theory of justice is grounded on a conception of nature dictating what is best. …
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Taste : a commentary on its genesis, nature and claims
… are traced. Examples are used which range from ancient Greek philosophy, via the 18th century, to Wittgenstein. The latter's gradual evolution from a position of unyielding separation of rational, valid knowledge from fantasy and the 'unspeakable', towards an increasingly unified view of …
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Theaetetus and the Making of a Philosopher: Character and the Nature of Philosophical Discussion in Plato's Theaetetus
… suggests that the dialogue is also about philosophy and the philosopher, and I find such concerns in fact present throughout both explicitly and implicitly. On my view, the dialogue is both dramatically and philosophically a portrayal of the philosophical progress of Theaetetus, whose …
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The cut that cures therapeutic methods in the Platonic dialogues and the Zhuangzi Neipian
… a medical vernacular to the larger objectives of philosophy. And, in a parallel context, the Zhuangzi offers its philosophical musings by drawing on a well-instituted tradition of self-cultivation that itself emerges from the intersections of medical and philosophical texts. My dissertation takes …