englischBook B/iii consists of the minimal critical notes necessary to justify (or question) the authenticity of the fragments and defend the readings adopted in book B/i and appeals for that purpose to the data contained in the apparatuses of books B/i andf B/ii. This book offers a rich [...]

englischThis study offers a new interpretation of the poem of the founder of Western philosophy: Parmenides. It shows that there is more in his poem than the description of Being by means of negative adjectives such as ingenerated and immobile. His words ask his audience to question their habits, to [...]

englischThe articles collected in this volume are a selection of the papers delivered at the Seventh Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society held at Würzburg under the auspices of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften und der [...]

Johann Heinrich Loewe (1808-1892) wirkte ab 1838 als Supplent und von 1839 bis 1851 als Professor für Philosophie in Salzburg. Danach wurde er zum Professor für Philosophie an der Universität seiner Geburtsstadt Prag ernannt. In Salzburg war Loewe maßgeblich an der Errichtung des Mozartdenkmals [...]

englischThe Laws rely upon the notion of play linked to seriousness. The project of the Laws is to set up a precise model for a political constitution and, in the same movement, to provide for the pedagogical means to implement it. This double ambition explains the main theme of play, as it is [...]

englischCan we learn how to think? Which role does philosophy play in contemporary society? Are children capable of philosophical thinking? Can philosophy further independent, critical thinking and tolerance?Experts from all over the world discussed some of these questions during the international [...]

Bioethik hat im Zeichen des biotechnologischen Fortschritts längst eine globale Bedeutung erlangt. Dennoch findet sie nirgendwo auf der Welt in kulturell homogenen Diskursräumen, sondern stets vor dem Hintergrund divergierender kultureller, juridischer und religiöser Traditionen wie auch [...]

Die Geistesgeschichte regt mit ihren Rätseln und Problemen immer zu Vergleichen an und zu Differenzierungen. Dabei sind die Fragestellungen in Bezug auf die Werke der jeweiligen Philosophen von der Antike bis heute von unschätzbarer Bedeutung. Sie geben schließlich Antworten auf Fragen nach Wesen [...]

englischThis book intends to examine the Aristotelian theology as it is manifested within Corpus aristotelicum and in the third book of De Philosophia. The contemporary presence and even the superimposition of theologies of diverse origins is rendered possible, for Aristotle, by the use of the term [...]

englischDespite the large number of studies appearing nowadays on Aristotle's Metaphysics the most logical part of the work, Book Iota, has been injustly neglected by modern scholars. Yet it is an essential part of the Aristotelian science of Being qua Being, a part which presents us with the most [...]