In the Timaeus and Critias, Plato interweaves two narrative lines: the demiurge's making of the cosmos with the victory of archaic Athens against Atlantis. The aim of this book is to investigate the relationship between the narrative practice of both accounts and the theoretical analysis of the [...]

This book explores the intimate connections, conflicts and discontinuities between religion and philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions from Antiquity to the early Medieval period. It presents a broader comparative view of Platonism by examining the strong Platonist resonances among [...]

Vasilij V. Zen'kovskij (1881-1962) untersucht in seinem 1926 erschienenen Buch die Frage des Verhältnisses von Russland und Europa, wie es in der russischen Kritik der europäischen Kultur seit der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts gesehen wird. Zen'kovskijs Fazit ist angesichts der gegenwärtigen [...]

Nella fiorente Smirne dei primi due secoli della nostra era, Teone (fl. 125 d.C.) fu maestro di Platonismo ed esegeta del testo di Platone. L'unica sua opera a noi tràdita, l'Expositio, è una testimonianza ampia e importante per cogliere non solo l'approccio di un filosofo medioplatonico alle [...]

During the Sixties and Seventies of the last century, the word 'utopia' acquired a positive connotation spurred on by the sudden emergence of the third world, the Marxist liberation movements and the decolonization of Africa and Asia, in so far as these processes were interpreted in Marxist terms [...]

Is it possible for law to squeeze out values, since the nihilism towards values leads towards the rejection of the major role of the law, which is the protection and realization of values? Does the legal norm, as the part of law turned into the command, really have for its goal to establish the [...]

I saggi raccolti in questo volume assumono ad oggetto la riflessione che nel mondo antico - da Omero a Filone di Alessandria, passando per i Sofisti, Platone, Aristotele, Posidonio, Lucrezio - si è sviluppata attorno all'origine della civiltà umana e delle forme culturali. La persistenza di questo [...]

Obwohl Wittgenstein nach eigenen Angaben vergleichsweise wenige Philosophen gelesen hat, lassen sich doch häufig Aufzeichnungen finden, die auf Ähnlichkeiten mit anderen Denkern hinweisen.Während diese Verbindungen zu zeitgenössischen Autoren in der Rezeption ausführlich erörtert werden, gibt es zu [...]

This book offers a distinctive interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. It suggests that Hegel's approach in the 1807 Phenomenology is akin to Socratic 'midwifery'. In Plato's Theaetetus Socrates (the midwife) elicits from Theaetetus his views on the nature of knowledge, without imposing [...]

The concept of the soul, one of the greatest 'inventions' of Greek philosophy, which crossed the whole history of the Western civilisation, was defined in its fundamental philosophical features by Plato. Developing the numerous issues naturally linked to this concept, Plato's thought does not only [...]