Meister Eckhart (etwa 1260-1327), einer der bedeutendsten Denker des Mittelalters, war lange nur als mystischer Prediger in deutscher Sprache bekannt. Erst 1880 wurden seine lateinischen Schriften wiederentdeckt. In der vorliegenden Übersetzung des Sapientiakommentars erscheint Eckhart als [...]

Aus dem Inhalt:EditionHelmut Schneider, 'Einleitung' in Hegels Religionsphilosophie-Vorlesung von 1821 nach der Mitschrift von Anton P. GanzoniThomas Posch und Siegfried Posch, 'Einleitung' und 'Begriff der Religion' in Hegels Religionsphilosophie-Vorlesungen von 1824 nach der Mitschrift von [...]

Der spätlateinische Schriftsteller Apuleius (ca. 125-180) ist vor allem durch seinen Roman 'Der goldene Esel' bekannt. Die Antike schätzte Apuleius aber auch als Rhetor und Philosoph. Die ihm zugeschriebene Schrift 'Platon und seine Lehre' enthält die älteste ganz überlieferte Platonbiographie sowie [...]

englischThis book celebrates the renowned Classical scholar, Prof. John Glucker, whose work has influenced many areas of research in Greek philosophy, Classical literature, and the reception of the Classics in modern scholarship. This collection of articles, written especially for this volume by [...]

englischIn The Other Olympians Thomas M. Robinson has dramatized the putative meeting of a series of notable philosophers, poets, dramatists, politicians, historians, and others at various Olympic Games held between the years 476 and 348 BCE. At these gatherings, held over three consecutive [...]

englischBy drawing a close link between theoretic and practical questions, the present work aims to reconstruct Plato's later ethics against the backdrop of the Philebus. In the Philebus, two issues - the development of which transpires throughout the different stages of the Platonic opus - come [...]

englischThe philosophical and scientific issue of the Mind-Body Problem was raised in modern times by analytic philosophers from the need to investigate and clarify the type of relationship between the mental and physical spheres in man. The underlying question is whether the mental processes need a [...]

In this collection of essays, Aristotle's Politics, a complex text which has been the object of multiple readings and continuously stimulates new interpretative challenges, is analyzed from various points of view that range from the material transmission of the text and its controversial reception [...]

The essays collected in this volume focus on Aristotle's notion of nous (usually translated as 'intellect','mind' or simply 'thinking') in Aristotle's works. They aim at elucidating the status and the function of the intellectual faculty in the context of Aristotle's analysis of the faculties of the [...]

There is a substantial difference between our way of 'philosophizing', born out of Descartes' clear and well-defined thinking and bent on building alternative (aut-aut) models, and the classical (especially Platonic-Aristotelian) way where a constant use of technical and methodical pluralism serves [...]