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Introduction
2022
In the introduction to the volume, the editors explain the overarching aim of the volume and contextualize the main themes of its chapters. Even if the notions of biopolitics and biopower have played a crucial role in philosophy, the humanities, and the social sciences over the last decades, they have been used in various and at times diverging senses, which has also produced different narratives about the history of biopolitics. The main aim of the volume is to clarify whether and to what extent the concept of biopolitics is applicable to antiquity. To answer such questions, the chapters collected in the volume address three main topics, namely the possible presence of biopolitical discour…
Platone e gli Eleati (I)
2017
Si argomenta (alla luce del "Sofista") come nel "Parmenide" Platone cerchi di mostrare a quali contraddizioni e assurdità porti la dialettica sull´essere di Parmenide. Se da un lato Platone rileva in maniera impietosa i limiti della dialettica eleatica, dall´altro sembra riconoscere a Parmenide alcuni meriti.
The (Meta)politics of Thinking
2021
In this chapter, Jussi Backman approaches Hannah Arendt’s readings of ancient philosophy by setting out from her perspective on the intellectual, political, and moral crisis characterizing Western societies in the twentieth century, a crisis to which the rise of totalitarianism bears witness. To Arendt, the political catastrophes haunting the twentieth century have roots in a tradition of political philosophy reaching back to the Greek beginnings of philosophy. Two principal features of Arendt’s exchange with the ancients are highlighted. The first is her account, in The Human Condition (1958), of the profound transformation of the Greek perceptions of political life initiated by Plato, the…
The Historical Background of Relativism
2020
Epistemological relativism has been defended and criticised since ancient philosophy (Baghramian M, Relativism. Routledge, London, 2004). At the beginning of this chapter, I create a short introduction to the history and development of epistemological relativism from Protagoras to today’s relativists. After this, I introduce a few philosophers who have been significant in the development of relativism. First, I introduce Kant’s understanding of knowledge and its construction. Then, I bring forth two notable perspectivists. G. W. Leibniz claimed in his book, Monadology (1898), that every monad has its own perspective of reality. The diversity of perspectives is one of the riches of the world…
Proclus, Erototokos and "the Great Confusion" : Neoplatonist defense of polytheistic piety in early byzantine Athens
2012
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…
Per il testo della divisio Carneadea nel quinto libro del De finibus di Cicerone
2007
Healing Grief: A Commentary on Seneca's Consolatio ad Marciam
2023
Both our view of Seneca’s philosophical thought and our approach to the ancient consolatory genre have radically changed since the latest commentary on the Consolatio ad Marciam was written in 1981. The aim of this work is to offer a new book-length commentary on the earliest of Seneca’s extant writings, along with a revision of the Latin text and a reassessment of Seneca’s intellectual program, strategies, and context. A crucial document to penetrate Seneca’s discourse on the self in its embryonic stages, the Ad Marciam is here taken seriously as an engaging attempt to direct the persuasive power of literary models and rhetorical devices toward the fundamentally moral project of healing Ma…