The genealogy of observation as a philosophical term goes back to the ancient Greek astronomical and medical traditions, and the revival of the concept in the Renaissance also happened in the astronomical and medical context. This essay focuses primarily on the medical genealogy of the concept of observation. In ancient Greek culture, an elaboration of the concept of observation (tērēsis) first...

We propose a data-driven method for automatically analyzing the morphology of ancient Greek. This method improves on existing ancient Greek analyzers in two ways. First, through the use of a nearestneighbor machine learning framework, the analyzer requires no hand-crafted rules. Second, it is able to predict novel roots, and to rerank its predictions by exploiting a large, unlabelled corpus of ...

Within this short paper I do not intend to compare systems of philosophies; rather, I am trying here to compare kinds of philosophizing, hereby not all of its main aspects but its core, namely: whether or not some philosophizing is related to some fix-point, so to speak: to some Archimedean point, and thereby, whether or not such philosophizing is leading to a closed system of philosophy. In or...

The ideals of justice and the supreme goodness permeate Plato's entire book Republic. Plato expounded his view on basis refuting customary justice. is harmony social order all parts individual. rulers, warriors, laborers within city-state perform their respective duties responsibilities, corresponding to three virtues wisdom, courage, temperance country, reason, passion, desire. These are in wi...

The book of one the currently most famous female physicists, Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, is a reason for discussing crisis which modern physics has fallen, as well new tendencies possible ways to overcome situation. Part responsibility decades stagnation development borne by certain aspects heritage ancient, specifically Pythagorean-Platonic philosophy, h...

Martha C. Nussbaum is internationally renowned for being one of the leading moral and political philosophers our time, highly regarded her work on role emotions in reasoning. In this interview, dialogue with interlocutors, she discusses over past four decades, gives insights into book progress opera its relationship to liberal ideals, The Republic Love. addition declaring love Italian culture, ...