The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic ...and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, Gorgias and Hippias to the extraordinary intellectual and moral fermant in fifth-century Athens. They questioned the bases of morality, religion and organized society itself and the nature of knowledge and language; they initiated a whole series of important and continuing debates, and they provoked Socrates and Plato to a major restatement and defence of traditional values.
This is the first dedicated commentary to Sextus Empiricus' treatise Against the Arithmeticians, dealing with crucial issues in the history of the sceptical, Platonic and Pythagorean traditions and ...in the ancient philosophy of mathematics.
Brian C. Ribeiro's Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers invites us to view the Pyrrhonist tradition as involving all those who share a commitment to the activity of Pyrrhonizing and develops fresh, ...provocative readings of Sextus, Montaigne, and Hume as radical Pyrrhonizing skeptics.
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McClay asserts that students of Plato will remember Socrates's encounter with the young prodigy Theaetetus, who would become one of the most influential mathematicians of the ancient world. As Plato ...tells the story, Theaetetus became so enthralled with Socrates's dialectical riddles that he confessed himself "dizzy" with "wondering" whether these mysteries could ever be unraveled. To which Socrates responded with an approving pat on the head, "This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin." Yet the connection between the sense of wonder and the drive for knowledge has not stayed constant in subsequent years. Aquinas himself hinted that wonder might cease once the "causes of things were known." Some six centuries later, Max Weber followed up on that prediction, lamenting that the rationalizing spirit of modern life--one of the proudest of the West's intellectual achievements--had led to the "disenchantment of the world," a cold and forbidding view devoid of all shadows of mystery.
Dans l'accompagnement, la posture est déterminante. Elle résulte de la conjugaison d'au moins trois figures essentielles. Deux sont relativement comprises: la figure clinique, qui suppose de ...«s'incliner» au-devant d'autrui pour recueillir de lui ce qu'il vit, et la posture maïeutique, qui justifie d'interagir avec autrui sur le mode socratique d'un questionnement dialogique. La troisième figure est bien moins conscientisée que les deux autres : il s'agit de la figure du passeur, qui est l'objet de cette contribution. On procédera tout d'abord à saisir comment la figure du passeur participe de la posture d'accompagnement, avant de rappeler quelques contributions sur le sujet et d'esquisser ce que cette figure enseigne pour penser ce qu'accompagner veut dire.
In this paper, I intend to propound that Socrates’ choice of abstaining himself from writing not only leads to the “Socratic Problem” but also renders him vulnerable to misappropriations; a ...vulnerability he attributes to writing while substantiating his downright dismissal of it. The paper has been divided into three sections. In section one; effort is to contemplate “The Socratic Problem” which has been baffling scholars across centuries. Whether, for example, in Plato’s works, is it Plato’s or the historical Socrates’ views? Absence of Socrates’ own work has put his historical existence in a blurry picture and his character under shadows of doubts. In section two, there is an attempt to outline the debate between Phonocentrism and Oral tradition. Socrates is seen projecting phonocentric viewpoints in Plato’s Phaedrus, when he censures writing by invoking an Egyptian myth. In the last section, I have put forth a surmise that Plato’s Socrates must be an apotheosized and misappropriated version of the historical Socrates. And I question, if it can be taken as an insinuation that we need to consider possibility of misappropriation every time we read history without historicity.
Drawing on philosophies of gaming and play from Heraclitus and Plato through to Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger, Kostas Axelos outlines an extraordinary, unique vision of our contemporary world. ...Originally published in 1969, The Game of the World brilliantly anticipates a twenty-first century in which ever-accelerating technological transformations coincide with a world at play and in play, at once fragmentary and totalised, disordered and hyper-organised. In the midst of this paradoxical and deranging becoming-planetary of the world, Axelos offers a sequence of profound meditations on play and playing, games and gaming, directing us towards new means of thinking and action that may enable us to face the world-historical challenges of our own present.
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished ...international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosopher of the day, and Lucretius, foremost among the representatives and supporters of Epicureanism at the time. Throughout the volume, the impact of such disparate reception on the part of these leading authors is explored in a way that illuminates the popularity as well as the controversy attached to the followers of Epicurus in Italy, ranging from ethical and political concerns to the understanding of scientific and celestial phenomena. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The tale of the tripod that the Seven Wise Men exchanged, until one of them decided to offer it to Apollo, the most knowledgeable in their circle, seems to form the subtext of the well-known episode ...of Delphi’s Oracle addressed to Socrates, recounted by Plato in his Apology. The philosopher rejects the title of “wisest of the Greeks” and reaffirms the superiority of divine wisdom. Drawing upon this template, Plato places the figure of Socrates within the context of ancient erudition and traditional pietas, categorically eschewing any affinity with the Sophists.
