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  1. Right Reason in Plato and Aristotle: On the Meaning of Logos.Jessica Moss - 2014 - Phronesis 59 (3):181-230.
    Something Aristotle calls ‘right logos’ plays a crucial role in his theory of virtue. But the meaning of ‘logos’ in this context is notoriously contested. I argue against the standard translation ‘reason’, and—drawing on parallels with Plato’s work, especially the Laws—in favor of its being used to denote what transforms an inferior epistemic state into a superior one: an explanatory account. Thus Aristotelian phronēsis, like his and Plato’s technē and epistēmē, is a matter of grasping explanatory accounts: in this case, (...)
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  • Measuring the End: Heraclitus and Diogenes of Babylon on the Great Year and Ekpyrosis.Christian Vassallo - 2023 - Apeiron 56 (4):643-671.
    This paper first examines surviving testimonies on the doctrine of the Great Year in Heraclitus and attempts to demonstrate the reliability of Aëtius’ version handed down by the mss., according to which the Great Year is equal to 18,000 solar years. On the basis of such evidence it is also possible to newly examine Diogenes of Babylon’s views about this topic. In the second part, the paper better defines the relationship between the Great Year and the theory of cosmic conflagration. (...)
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  • The Verb εἰμί and Its Benefits for Parmenides’ Philosophy.Ricardo Alcocer Urueta - 2023 - Rhizomata 11 (2):140-188.
    Parmenides believed that he had found the most reliable way of theorizing about ultimate reality. While natural philosophers conceptualized phenomenal differences to explain cosmic change, Parmenides used the least meaningful but most versatile verb in Ancient Greek to engage in a purely intellectual exploration of reality – one that transcended synchronous and asynchronous differences. In this article I explain how the verb εἰμί was useful to Parmenides in his attempt to overcome natural philosophy. First, I argue that the Eleatic philosopher (...)
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  • “Clever beasts who invented knowing”: Nietzsche's evolutionary biology of knowledge. [REVIEW]C. U. M. Smith - 1987 - Biology and Philosophy 2 (1):65-91.
    Nietzsche was a philosopher, not a biologist, Nevertheless his philosophical thought was deeply influenced by ideas emerging from the evolutionary biology of the nineteenth century. His relationship to the Darwinism of his time is difficult to disentangle. It is argued that he was in a sense an unwitting Darwinist. It follows that his philosophical thought is of considerable interest to those concerned to develop an evolutionary biology of mankind. His approach can be likened to that of an extraterrestrial sociobiologist studying (...)
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  • Bienvenue sur notre bureau!Maria Michela Sassi - 2018 - Philosophie Antique 18:269-278.
    J’aimerais commencer par une expression italienne qui décrit très bien, grâce à une assonance efficace, mes sentiments actuels, à savoir, je sens tutto l’onore e l’onere de la charge qui m’a été confiée. D’un côté, c’est évidemment un grand honneur de pouvoir présenter précisément au Centre Léon Robin mes remarques sur le nouveau recueil de textes de la tradition « présocratique » édité par André Laks et Glenn Most : et je tiens à remercier ici M. Gourinat en tant que (...)
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  • The Logos Paradox: Heraclitus, Material Language, and Rhetoric.Robin Reames - 2013 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 46 (3):328-350.
    In her 1996 and 2006 essays “Being and Becoming: Rhetorical Ontology in Early Greek Thought” and “The Task of the Bow: Heraclitus’ Rhetorical Critique of Epic Language,” Carol Poster was the first to argue for the historical and theoretical relevance of Heraclitus in the discipline of rhetoric. Despite the admonitions of Edward Schiappa (1999) and Thomas Cole (1991) against applying rhetorical theories that only emerged after the fourth century BCE to pre- or proto-rhetorical texts, Poster argues that Heraclitus merits the (...)
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  • Éditer les premiers philosophes grecs : hier, aujourd’hui, demain.Glenn Most - 2018 - Philosophie Antique 18:247-267.
    1. Considérations préliminaires : pourquoi des fragments? Éditer les plus anciens philosophes grecs – plus précisément, les philosophes antérieurs à Platon – signifie dans presque tous les cas éditer non pas des textes complets qui nous seraient intégralement parvenus plus ou moins sous la forme dans laquelle leurs auteurs les ont composés, mais bien plutôt une combinaison de citations indirectes, de longueur variable, que des auteurs postérieurs ont faites de leurs œuvres, des paraphrases,...
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  • Heraclitean Flux Metaphysics.Andrew Dennis Bassford - 2023 - Metaphysica: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics 24 (2):299-322.
    This essay offers an original interpretation and defense of the doctrine of flux, as it is presented in Plato’s Theaetetus. The methodology of the paper’s analysis is in the style of rational reconstruction, and it is highly analytic in scope, in the sense that I will focus on the text itself, and only on certain parts of it too, while ignoring the rest of Plato’s extensive corpus, and without worrying about whether, how, and to what extent the interpretation of the (...)
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