This comprehensive study of Melissus of Samos, centred on the 2012 Eleatic Lectures of Jaap Mansfeld (Utrecht University), is the first in more than forty years. Mansfeld argues that Melissus presents us with an efficacious and comprehensible revision of the ontological arguments of Parmenides or, [...]

How many different ways there are to construct a construction of law? All the different pillars that hold the construction of law must be based on faith and reason in order for the construction to be preserved. Observation of the pillars of law from the level of faith and reason gives us a valid [...]

The interdisciplinary approach in determining human rights arises because of the nature of human rights which are not only a legal phenomenon, but the phenomenon of other sciences. Such an approach of human rights will enable us to determine the roots of human rights, their structure and content, as [...]

This book offers inter alia a systematic investigation of the actual argumentative strategy of Socratic conversation and explorations of Socratic and Platonic morality including an examination of eudaimonia and the mental conception of health in the Republic as self-control, with a view to the [...]

Questo libro di Ivan Adriano Licciardi su Parmenide nel Commento alla Fisica di Simplicio colma una vistosa e per certi aspetti paradossale lacuna negli studi sul Neoplatonismo: sebbene Simplicio (VI sec. d.C.) rappresenti una delle fonti più importanti per la ricostruzione del poema di Parmenide [...]

The twenty-three essays pay tribute to the outstanding work of Francisco Lisi. The variety of their topics, methods and approaches reflects the wide scope of Lisi's own scientific interest; their linguistic diversity (the volume comprises contributions in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish [...]

englischThis volume offers the first comprehensive reconstruction of Bolzano's doctrine in the form of an axiomatic theory. Bernard Bolzano's theory of ground and consequence did not receive the attention it deserved in Bolzano research for a long time. Interest in this doctrine, which is [...]

englischThe articles in this volume are a selection of the papers presented at the Tenth Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society held at Pisa in July 2013, under the auspices of the University of Pisa, the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, and the President [...]

Isaac Newtons 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' ist eines der wichtigsten Werke der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Sie stellt die Basis des Theoriegebäudes der Newtonschen Physik und ihrer mathematischen Grundlagen dar. Im Jahre 1687 wurde sie, in Latein geschrieben, als Buch veröffentlicht. [...]

This volume is dedicated to culturally different ways of the exposition, reconstruction, and reformulation of a whole range of classical philosophical issues: Ethics and theology, cultural particularity and humanistic universality, man and nature, heaven and earth, Eastern and Western values, [...]