… and interpret it as an instance of experiential knowledge. Key Words Hymns, Neoplatonism, Religious Pluralism. ! In common parlance as well as in standard histories of philosophy the language of prayer and the language of reason are ascribed to different, if not contrasting, dom…

…supposed to be has proven a vexing, perennial problem since ancient times. Even Plato expressed reservations as to whether Parmenides’ “noble depth” could be understood at all—and Plato possessed Parmenides’ entire poem, a blessing denied to modern scholars. Although there are ma…

…n this reading, Pamphylia as the diverse audience for Er's call to justice lets Plato divide types of justice unequally among the world's population. After all its fresh and astonishing discussions, the Republic finishes with a vacuous figure of speech. "We shall do well," Socrat…

…ent by close comparison of the surviving fragments and testimonies of the Early Platonists Speusippus of Athens, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Heraclides of Pontus and Eudoxus of Cnidus with the doxographical reports of Aristotle and Theophrastus. 2 In particular, Burkert argued that …

…rences Ecos del Ión platónico en los escritos de Filón de Alejandría* Echoes of Plato's Ion in the writings of Philo of Alexandria Ana Carolina Delgado https://doi.org/10.3989/EMERITA.2016.04.1423 visibility … description 25 pages Sign up for access to the world's latest research…

…ychic conditions that constitute virtue and vice. These are accepted truisms of Platonic scholarship. Nevertheless, my application of these truisms to the First Wave is controversial. For it is also commonly thought that in the Middle Books of the Republic (i.e. Books V-VII), Pla…

…s 5 Alcidamas 47 Michael Edwards 6 Isocrates 58 Terry L. Papillon vi Contents 7 Plato’s Rhetoric 75 Harvey Yunis 8 The Rhetoric to Alexander 90 P. Chiron 9 Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric 107 W.W. Fortenbaugh 10 Hellenistic Rhetoric in Theory and Practice 124 John Vanderspoel 11 The …

Creation spirit in some schools of philosophy In the Platonic , Neopythagorean , Middle Platonic , and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy , the Demiurge () is an artisan -like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe . Various schools of Gnostics ado…

…pleteness—available. Neither, for that matter, are any originals available from Plato or Aristotle . In the pre-printing press days, scribes copied whatever editions of books and other written works they had available to them. We have texts that have been copied many times over. …

…fts 1 Talks Published papers by Catherine McKeen Law and Political Expertise in Plato's Statesman Revista Archai , 2024 Remarks made by the Eleatic Visitor at Statesman 293a-300e are often read as implying that laws a... more Remarks made by the Eleatic Visitor at Statesman 293a-…

Aspects of the dimension of the soul in Plato's Phaedrus, Laws and Republic - PDF-PowerPoint used on 21st April 2026 at the VII SIMPÓSIO INTERNACIONAL DELPHOS, 21, 22 e 23 de abril, 2026. Keywords: Plato, Soul, Phaedrus, Laws, Republic,... more Aspects of the dimension of the sou…

…er, was not shared by the Socratics, as this volume shows. Among the Socratics, Plato, especially in the Republic, gives extraordinary expression to the Socratic recognition of the moral, political, and intellectual capacities of women—so much so that one contemporary scholar has…

…s Disunity 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Disunity as the Primary Cause of Injustice in Plato 3.3. Disunity as a Major Element of Injustice in Aristotle 3.4. Disunity as Metaphysical Injustice in Christianity 3.5. The Dialectic of Unity and Individuality in Modernity 4. Injustice as Mism…

…σκοπεῖσθαι οὖν χρὴ ἡμᾶς εἴτε ταῦτα πρακτέον εἴτε μή Abstract: This article uses Plato’s Crito as a lens through which to consider the question of whether a South African citizen should emigrate from South Africa. While this question is not exactly parallel to that of whether the …

…I Aristotle does not take finance, as such, to be ethically neutral. He follows Plato1 in condemning a life devoted to the pursuit of wealth.2 Moreover, he sometimes speaks in a way that apparently subjects not only the pursuit of wealth but wealth itself to moral evaluation. Thi…