englischPlatonism is the sole theoretical 'background' of Latin-speaking philosophy between fourth and twelfth century. Such 'scenery' includes, and is confused with, the Aristotelian, Stoic and Neopythagorean elements that the sources of medieval thought transmit to Latin learned circles, in [...]

englischThe present collection brings together some of the papers presented at the international congress Religión en Utopía (Religion in Utopia), held at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, under the auspices of the Instituto de Estudios Clásicos sobre la Sociedad y la Política 'Lucio Anneo [...]

This volume presents the English translation of a selection of 15 essays out of the 82 comprised in the seven-volume commentary on Plato's Republic, edited by Mario Vegetti and published by Bibliopolis (Naples). 1. Thrasymachus (M. Vegetti, Univ. di Pavia) 2. Poetry: paideia and mimesis (S. [...]

englischThe first of the three parts of the book introduces the 'world-citizenly' variety of phenomenology, loosely based on the work of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, and ventures an answer to the question of the conditions of intercultural communication. The middle part, the centrum of the [...]

Band 9 der Schriftenreihe Beiträge zur Angewandten Ethik versammelt Arbeiten zu aktuellen Problemen sowie zu Grundlagenfragen der Medizinischen Ethik. Es handelt sich dabei zum Teil um Beiträge zu wissenschaftlichen Symposien, die das Interuniversitäre Institut für Angewandte Ethik in den Jahren [...]

Euthydemus was for a long time and until quite recently a neglected dialogue of Plato, almost by common accord treated as a motley collection of barely disguised sophistic fallacies. This book shows not only that the dialogue is to be taken seriously, but also that it is, in fact, a very important [...]

Chris Bezzel findet einen neuen Zugang zu den Hauptthemen der Philosophie Wittgensteins: Logik, Semiotik und Ästhetik, Im Mittelpunkt seiner Analysen steht Wittgensteins Theorie der Wahrnehmung, die er von den Phänomenen des Sehens-als, des Aspekt-Sehens und des Aspektwechsels her erschließt.

englischMedicine and Politics are powers, systems, machines. They have their own logic and powers, almost irresistible for human individuals. In a democratic state, only the law can defend the individual's interests against these social forces. But the human individual itself is not an ideal being: [...]

englischWith this work on the problems of motion and infinity in the third book of Aristotle's Physics, Giovanna R. Giardina follows up on her previous commentaries on book I (the issue of principles) in 2002, and book II (the issue of causes) in 2006. I say commentary because the author's [...]

It was in ancient Greek philosophy where the idea arose that there is a supreme law before which any civil law created by human societies has to be justified. Since then the concept of natural law not only remained one of the paradigms of Western civilization but has shaped the development of [...]