The Ancient and Middle Stoics share with the Presocratics the ill fortune of having had their work lost. There is, however, an enourmous amount of fragments and reports that have come down to us from contemporary or later philosophers and writers with an interest in philosophy (such as Alexander of [...]

This book contains a collection of essays co-authored by Edgar Morscher and Peter Simons. The themes of the essays range from questions of the objectivity of truth-bearers and truth-makers to Meinong's object theory and semantics, from the history and foundations of free logic to situation [...]

Dieser Band nähert sich der „sokratischen Frage“ von einem Standpunkt aus, der radikal von den gängigen Interpretationslinien abweicht. Der Schwerpunkt liegt nicht auf der „formalen Ordnung“ der Sokratiker, d.h. auf ihrer Unterteilung in „Schulen“ und den jeder von ihnen eigenen „Lehren“, sondern [...]

Since antiquity Sparta has been seen as the source of inspiration for Plato's political projects which he described in his major dialogues, the Republic and the Laws. Nevertheless an attentive reading of the dialogues shows a more complex picture, which expresses Plato's more equivocal, perhaps even [...]

Publication of the theoretical part of the work of August Boeckh, entitled Encyclopedia and Methodology of the Philological Sciences, fills a gap in philological studies in France. This work, published posthumously in 1877 (Teubner, Leipzig) by one of the disciplies of Boeckh, E. Bratuschek, has [...]

Gli studi raccolti in questo volume, pubblicati da Anna Maria Ioppolo nell'arco di circa trent'anni, costituiscono una tappa importante nelle ricerche recenti sul pensiero antico. La loro genesi si inquadra nella rinascita di interesse per le filosofie ellenistiche che si ebbe negli anni '80 del [...]

The title of this volume alludes to Phaedrus 255d, where Socrates says that the lover is, as it were, the mirror in which the beloved beholds himself. Mirrors provide a chance to overcome some of the natural limitations of vision - and in particular they enable us to see that which otherwise would [...]

Les contributions rassemblées ici abordent l'histoire des interprétations et des usages de la philosophie platonicienne à partir de l'interdépendance entre exégèse et définition du corpus. Il ne s'agit pas de jalonner l'histoire du platonisme ni celle du corpus platonicien, mais d'étudier telle [...]

Parmenide è davvero quel filosofo speculativo quale è stato presentato nella tradizione filosofica occidentale? Se si abbandonano i pre-supposti 'filosofici' che guidano le interpretazioni moderne e si legge il poema come l'autore stesso lo descrive, una rivelazione divina, con tutto ciò che questo [...]

Kurt Gödels berühmter, hier wieder abgedruckter Aufsatz »Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme« von 1931 und Wittgensteins Reaktionen darauf in den Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik werden bis heute unter Mathematikern, Logikern und [...]