Der Liber de causis ist ein im 12. Jahrhundert aus dem Arabischen übersetzter Traktat über die Ursachen der Welt, der in der Scholastik des Mittelalters eine große Wirkung entfaltete. Die vorliegende Untersuchung bietet im ersten Teil eine kommentarartige Analyse dieser Schrift und im zweiten Teil [...]
more informationenglischThis book includes selected papers from the International Colloquium 'Plato Ethicus: philosophy is life' (Piacenza, Italy), organised by M. Migliori (Univ. of Macerata) and L. M. Napolitano Valditara (Univ. of Trieste), The variety of approaches adopted on the issue of Platonic ethics is [...]
more informationenglischThis book includes selected papers from the International Colloquium 'Plato Ethicus: philosophy is life' (Piacenza, Italy), organised by M. Migliori (Univ. of Macerata) and L. M. Napolitano Valditara (Univ. of Trieste), The variety of approaches adopted on the issue of Platonic ethics is [...]
more informationenglischPaul Natorp's monumental work, Plato's Theory of Ideas. An Introduction to Idealism (1903, 2nd ed. 1921), is a fascinating and highly original work which merits renewed study not only as a significant document of German Neokantianism, but as an important contribution to our understanding of [...]
more informationenglischThis book is the first German translation of Proclus's Stoicheiosis Theologike and follows Dodds's text, which is included unchanged. An introduction begins by locating the text among Proclus's other works and Neo-Platonism in general. In doing so, it emphasises the philosophically relevant [...]
more informationenglischTime does not have a beginning nor an end in time. Therefore the question about the limits of time inevitably leads to the philosophical mystery of its origin. Does the existence of time require an absolute which is beyond time? Or is it at least connected to the beginning and the end of [...]
more informationDer von der Österreichischen Forschungsgemeinschaft (Wien) eingerichtete Forschungsschwerpunkt zu Leben und Werk Bernard Bolzanos wurde mit einem internationalen Symposium über die wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Leistungen Bolzanos auf den Gebieten der Logik, der Mathematik und der Physik [...]
more informationenglischThis short book attempts to say what Plato is getting at in the Republic. Its strategy is to trace one bright thread, the comparison between the structure of a society and that of the individual soul, a theme that runs through the Republic and binds its argument. After some close-drawn [...]
more informationZu Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts findet in Prag, im Vorfeld der hussitischen Revolution, der Universalienstreit einen Höhepunkt mit europaweiter Ausstrahlung. Christine Blättlers Studie begreift den sogenannten extremen Prager Realismus sowohl diachron als eine spezifische Ausprägung in der Geschichte [...]
more informationenglischThis new interpretation of the central books of Plato's Republic differs from the consensus of 20th century interpreters mainly in three basic points. (1) It is shown that Aristotle's picture (in Metaph. A 6) of Plato's philosophy is not at variance with the text of the Republic, further (2) [...]
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