This volume comprises twenty-six pieces, both in Spanish and in English, written by the Chilean-American scholar and philosopher Alfonso Gómez-Lobo (1940-2011). The papers contained in this book show some of his scholarly and philosophical interests, which spanned a wide range of topics, including [...]

The purpose of this book is to examine how Plato distinguishes the sensible from the intelligible in the dialogues. In this perspective, the main elements of the hypothesis of Forms will be analyzed in the context of an aporetic reading of the dialogues. While it is true that a separation between [...]

Olympiodorus was the last pagan intellectual to hold between 527 and 567 the philosophy chair at the University of Alexandria in Egypt, an institution that in the age of Justinian represented the most prestigious cultural center of the Empire. He was probably the last philosopher to teach the [...]

Olympiodorus was the last pagan intellectual to hold between 527 and 567 the philosophy chair at the University of Alexandria in Egypt, an institution that in the age of Justinian represented the most prestigious cultural center of the Empire. He was probably the last philosopher to teach the [...]

Plato's theory of erôs is, along with the theory of intelligible forms, one of the cornerstones of the philosophy of dialogues. Recent studies on gender and sexuality in Antiquity have shed a new light on specific elements of Platonic erôs, and this volume aims at deepening our understanding of erôs [...]

Well over half a century after his death, Ludwig Wittgenstein remains controversial throughout the philosophical world. Yet the fact that this is primarily on account of his approaches to topics pertaining to logic, language and the philosophy of mathematics has obscured the extent to which he was [...]

In der auf den gegenwärtigen interkulturellen religiösen Diskurs reagierenden Abhandlung geht es nicht um 'Religion', sondern um 'Religiosität'. Bei dem hierbei gemeinten Unterschied wird mit Georg Simmel davon ausgegangen, dass nicht die Religion die Religiosität schafft, sondern die Religiosität [...]

The reason/no-reason conceptual pair (also declinable in the similar forms of rational/a-rational, logical/a-logical) pervades the history of Western thought from the archaic era up to contemporary times. Perceived in different historical periods and in different cultural forms either as a conflict [...]

Bei all ihrem formal-technischen Glanz litt die moderne Logik immer schon an einem gewissen 'Mangel an logischer Reinheit' (Bertrand Russell). Dieser Mangel bestand darin, dass in die logischen Gesetze unhinterfragt ontologische Voraussetzungen in Form von Existenzannahmen Eingang gefunden hatten. [...]

Schon der Begriff des Handelns legt nahe, dass menschliches Tun mit einer ökonomischen Absicht verbunden ist. Ebenso verhält es sich mit dem Begriff des Vermögens: was wir haben oder sind, setzen wir ein, um uns etwas anzueignen, das wir noch nicht haben oder sind. Der Wert, den wir Gütern [...]