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Self-Causation and Unity in Stoicism
2021
Abstract According to the Stoics, ordinary unified bodies—animals, plants, and inanimate natural bodies—each have a single cause of unity and being: pneuma. Pneuma itself has no distinct cause of unity; on the contrary, it acts as a cause of unity and being for itself. In this paper, I show how pneuma is supposed to be able to unify itself and other bodies in virtue of its characteristic tensile motion (τονικὴ κίνησις). Thus, we will see how the Stoics could have hoped to account for corporeal unity by positing another body (pneuma) apparently itself in need of unification.
La storia della filosofia nell'età classica
2013
Affrontando lo studio della filosofia antica, preliminarmente debbono essere poste almeno due domande: una sull’origine e l’altra sul carattere di questo segmento storico del pensiero occidentale. Alla prima domanda si può rispondere agevolmente, poiché è fin troppo noto che la filosofia, alla quale si richiama la tradizione della civiltà occidentale, è sorta nelle colonie greche dell’Asia Minore tra la fine del VII e l’inizio del VI secolo a.C.; alla seconda domanda, invece, è assai difficile dare risposta, poiché, trattandosi di una disciplina umanistica che, a differenza delle discipline scientifiche, non possiede un codice unico o unilaterale, non può essere definita a priori. Se si può…
L’ἀλήθεια dell’‘essere’ nel cielo del proemio parmenideo (28, B1 D.-K.)
2018
The dóxa is a major aspect of Parmenides’ “scientific” commitment, as evidenced by studies of its discoveries in various fields of knowledge. Among them in astronomy. However, these studies have ended up identifying a scientific plan separate from the mythicalreligious and philosophical one of the first part. This survey explores the possibility of reconsidering the presence in the Parmenides’ dóxa of ontology and theology. It does so by proposing the hypothesis that the proem contains among the multiple semantic-linguistic layers the mythopoeic presentation of the astronomical theorem of the identity of Eos and Hesperus, with the intent of showing, from the very beginning and in the most a…
On the Standards of Conceptual Change
2019
Abstract It is a necessary condition for recognising change that there is a yardstick against which the change can be perceived. The same applies to changes that philosophical concepts undergo. This paper delineates standards for recognising conceptual change that meet the requirements of conscientious history of philosophy. More particularly, we want to argue for the need of what we will call non-textual standards. These are features of the world of experience that must be assumed to be shared between us and the historical authors we study. While they must be used in tandem with the recognised contextual standards of conceptual change, we will argue that without recourse to at least some n…
Plotinus’ “Enneads” and Self-creation
2014
Ontology of Art: Aristotle’s Mimesis and Gadamer’s Play (30: Aristotle’s philosophy of art-aesthetics, technê and technology)
2016
Ontology of Art: Mimesis and Play
2016
Antīkās filozofijas recepcija Latvijā
2013
Antīkās filozofijas recepcija Latvijas teritorijā ir jauna, maz pētīta tēma. Recepcija latviešu valodas izteiksmē laikā no 19.gs.b. līdz 20.gs. 30.g.v. ir ritējusi lielumis tā laika valodas prakses gultnē. Mācību iestāžu klausītavās tā ir izpaudusies filozofijas vēstures kursa sastāvdaļa, tiesa, jo bieži citu zemju filozofijas vēsturnieku darbu satura vienkāršotu kompilāciju atveidojumā. Atsevišķi antīkās filozofijas izdibinājumu aizmetņi nepārtapa patstāvīgā un pēctecīgā ziniskā interesē, kura spēja saglabāt vien izglītojoši pedagoģisku specifiku. Filozofijas recepcija ir pieņēmusi arī ārpusakadēmiskas, privātas iniciatīvas formas, kurās tika panākti vienīgie šajā jomā publiski pieejamie r…