This paper discusses Michael Dummett’s criticism of the Neo-Fregean conception of the context principle. I will present four arguments by Dummett that purport to show that the context principle is incompatible with platonism. I discuss and ultimately reject each argument. I will close this paper by identifying what I take to be a deeprooted tension in the Neo-Fregean project which might have mo...

He was more analytic than Hippocrates in his dissertations, concerning the description of the diseases and pathological conditions, attempting to associate the clinical medicine with the experimental investigation [5]. Galen as an author was very productive. His extensive work covered almost every scientific and philosophical field. He composed more than five hundred dissertations on anatomy, m...

This paper explores the relationship between language and reality ecological implications of dualism, categorical logic, Aristotelian three laws on humans’ attitude toward natural world. The engages in a comparative analysis two traditions: one from West (Neo-Platonism) East (Daoism). It argues that while both Neo-Platonism (as represented by Plotinus’ Enneads) Classic Daoism Daodejing Zhuangzi...

This paper reflects on the importance of pagan Platonism to one of its most sympathetic Christian interpreters, Augustine of Hippo. Its goal is to uncover what Platonism meant to Augustine and why it mattered so much to him throughout his long career. To that end the essay begins by considering salient developments in the study of Platonism over the last fifty years, with particular attention t...

Mark Balaguer has, in his Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics [Balaguer, 1998], given us an intriguing new brand of platonism, which he calls, plenitudinous platonism, or more colourfully, full-blooded platonism. In this paper, I argue that Balaguer’s attempts to characterise full-blooded platonism fail. They are either too strong, with untoward consequences we all reject, or too weak, ...

In pursuing the question of incarnation, it must be noted from the beginning that what is at stake is Platonism. More specifically, my concern will be the relationship of Christian theology to Platonism. It is a curious phenomenon that here, now, on the brink of the twentyfirst century, the question of Christian theology’s relationship to Platonism remains an orienting and fundamental theme of ...

This research examines the philosophy of history from perspective Saint Augustine. Augustine has contributed to field philosophy, and became one philosophers speculative history. Meanwhile, aim is see historical thoughts movements can be classified in philosophical research. The method used this study a qualitative with literature review as reference source. While data analysis techniques, auth...

Sufism greatly influenced the ethical beliefs and values of al-Ghazali. Had it not been for that influence, his works would have lacked their special spiritual value. In this paper, I will examine the role that Sufi philosophy played in giving spiritual depth to the ethics of al-Ghazali and how he was ultimately drawn to Sufism. Al-Ghazali moved away from his focus on the law and realized the v...

This study examines the various explanations of deliberative humanity, regarding a new gnoseology in intellectual contexts Giordano Bruno and Wang Yangming during 15th 16th centuries. In similar way to Marsilio Ficino for European Renaissance, is enlightener among representatives Neo-Confucianism early modern China. Each these three takes an individual’s mind as point departure. They then modif...