Search results for "SOCRATES"

Stage Theory and Proper Names

2011

In the contemporary debate about the nature of persistence, stage theory is the view that ordinary objects (artefacts, animals, persons, etc.) are instantaneous and"persist" by being suitably related to other instantaneous objects (see T. Sider 1996, 2001 and K. Hawley 2001, both defenders of the view). In this paper I focus on the issue of what stage theorists should say about the semantics of ordinary proper names, like"Socrates" or"London". This is how I will proceed: after discussing the general features of stage theory (section 1), I will consider the remarks that stage theorists actually make about the semantics of proper names (section 2). I will then point to some hitherto unnoticed…

Science and logic

2009

From Zeno to Chrysippus

2015

This chapter is about the origin and development of early Stoic epistemology. I discuss how Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoa, was influenced by his predecessors and interpreted by his successors. I argue that Stoicism rely on two basic assumptions for which Socrates is the main predecessor, namely that human beings are at home in the world and that it is only by using our rational abilities to detect salient truths and organize them into skills that we can successfully orient ourselves in this world. This Socratic-Stoic position relies on a naturalistic theory of concept acquisition, for which Aristotle is the main predecessor, or so I argue. I then look at how Zeno’s original episte…

Machiavellego rozumienie dobra i zła

2015

Niccolo Machiavelli’s way of understanding the notions of good and evil rely on his theory of the origins of communities, according to which their basic structure is build around the figures of founders. Communities are kept alive by the constant effort make by their members to take care of common good and practice of crafts of peace. Forces opposed to the founders and disarraying the social life can be described as the figures on the continuum stretched between traitors, as Brutus or Judas, and lazy-bones or cowards, parasiting on the fruits of common labor. This way of understanding the good and the evil has its roots in the age of Athenian Enlightenment – in the conception of virtue ethi…

Role of Foreseeability in Imposition of Civil Liability

2021

The purpose of this article is to offer an insight into the role of foreseeability in imposition of civil liability. The article contains analysis of the principle of foresee­ability from various points of view, for example, by analysing it from the perspective of the general (fault-based) model of liability as well of the strict liability. Likewise, the article analysis the role of foreseeability during determination of preconditions to civil liability, for example, by introducing it into the concepts of “fault” and “causation”. The aspects referred to in this article are predominantly analysed from the theoretical perspective. The article references various legal sources from different co…

Reflexiones en torno al COVID 19: Pandemia: heroísmo, muertes y eternidad

2020

Reflexión en torno al problema de la muerte y la eternidad en relación a la pandemia del COVID19.

Detecting Asset Misappropriation: Forensic Accounting

2021

The main task of the investigation of asset misappropriation is the correct classification of a crime: identification of the fact of misappropriation and determination of the amount of misappropriated assets. Specificity of asset diversity, asset accounting requirements, and a wide range of misappropriation opportunities require specialised knowledge in accounting and economics that investigators often lack. The aim of the study is to increase the knowledge of investigators in forensic accounting in order to increase effectiveness of investigations in detecting asset misappropriation. In this article, the authors, Latvian and Lithuanian accounting experts, talk about typologies of asset mis…

Jakiego "Sokratesa" nie wystawili Lenartowiczowi aktorzy warszawscy w 1884 roku?

2022

„Poemat dramatyczny” Teofila Lenartowicza Sędziowie ateńscy (1895), wydany dopiero po śmierci autora, nie tylko powstawał przez kilka lat, lecz także był prawdopodobnie kilka razy pisany od nowa pod różnymi tytułami (m.in. Sokrates). Z niektórych jego wersji zachowały się drukowane fragmenty, inne pozostały w rękopisach. Jedną z redakcji wcześniejszych, nietożsamą z tekstem wydanym na podstawie ostatniego autografu, była wersja przygotowana dla teatru w 1884 roku. Powody rezygnacji z wystawienia nie są dokładnie znane. Egzemplarz odebrany z teatru zachował się w stanie mocno niekompletnym (obejmuje tylko jeden z pięciu aktów), ale tekst dramatu w nim zapisany pokrywa się z innym odpisem, na…

Sisters of the Brotherhood: Alienation and Inclusion in Learning Philosophy

2023

This open access book explores the gendered reality of learning philosophy at the university level, investigating the ways in which women and minority students become alienated from the social practices of a male-dominated field, and examining pedagogical solutions to this problem. It covers the roles and the interactions of the professor and student in the following ways: (1) the historical situation, (2) the affective, social and bodily situation, and (3) the moral situation. This text analyzes women’s passion for philosophy as a quest for truth, as well as their partial alienation from the social practices of philosophy. It demonstrates that recognition, generosity, and care are central …