Anthony A. Long’s recent book, Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Heraclitus to Plotinus (2022), is a collection of fourteen essays that explore the themes selfhood rationality ancient philosophy. book provides an illuminating account vast tradition engaging tour begins with pre-Socratic thought ends Stoicism Neoplatonism seeking answers multifaceted question rational se...

Alex Voorhoeve sets the stage for his book by quoting Plato's Phaedrus in which the “the living, breathing discourse of the man who knows” (1) is deemed superior to the written discourse. Socrates's vindication of the dialogue as the blessed form of philosophical investigation is thus presented as the inspiration for these eleven conversations with prominent thinkers on ethics ― most of them pr...

The authors summarize personal, intellectual, and social influences on Campbell Perry's (1937-2003) life and research on hypnosis. His education in Australia reflected the influences of a public primary school, a prestigious private high school, and undergraduate and graduate work at Australia's oldest university. His approach to hypnosis was influenced initially by Gordon Hammer and Philip Sut...

hegel’s interpretation of sophocles’ antigone is surely one of the best we can find in literature or philosophy. in his book “phenomenology of spirit”, hegel goes through insightful interpretations of antigone and analyzes this work based on his own system of philosophy. hegel is one of the few systematic philosophers who made a universal body of philosophy which is supposed to overwhelm all hu...

department of islamic philosophy and wisdom, zanjan university bringing up the ancients’ views and asking about their ultimate condition in mullā ṣadrā’s thinking and that of his disciples has had a significant impact on the formation and development of the motion theory. mentioning the names and bringing up the views of the ancient greek philosophers, as evidences for truthfulness in the disco...

One of the most common problems encountered in present-day research into ancient natural philosophy is question when term kosmos (κόσμος) began to be used not only for order, but also meaning world order. This article attempts argue that this new interpretation connected with Socratic thought and asserts anthropological turn can meaningfully discussed due changes field philosophy. best expresse...

Chaos theories developed in the last three decades have made very important contributions to our understanding of dynamical systems and natural phenomena. The meaning of chaos in the current theories and in the past is somewhat different from each other. In this work, the properties of dynamical systems and the evolution of chaotic systems were discussed in terms of the views of ancient philoso...

In order to demonstrate the great importance of Philosophy in elaboration current scientific theories, a parallel was drawn between concepts pre-Socratic and modern theories. Thus, throughout this essay, convergences some elaborations developed by philosophers their reinterpretation from point view, supported method present technological apparatuses, were exposed. sense, having as its core refl...

Neurosciences are extended into a broad field, where the scientific observation and research join harmoniously the imagination, the intuition, the philosophy, the critic analysis, the enthusiasm and the skepticism, opening new horizons in the theoretic perspectives and offering new motivations for research, on the bases of an advanced multi-dimensional intellectuality. From the Era of Pre-Socra...