Search results for "plato"

Traffic congestion reduction based on vehicle platoons and intelligent crossroads interactions

2021

Intersections are at the core of urban congestion. For more than a decade, new approaches based on autonomous and connected driving have been proposed. They aim to improve the performance of traffic control at intersections, by harnessing connectivity and driving automation (longitudinal control). These approaches have in common the fact that vehicles can negotiate together their right of way to use the conflicting space. However, they are different in terms of the way they share the space and optimization techniques. The challenge is to define the sequence of access of vehicles to the common space (which one goes first, which is the second, and so on) and the speed profile of vehicles to a…

Louis Le Roy traducteur de Platon : pour un français philosophique au XVIe siècle

2014

Axe 2 OS Nat; National audience; no abstract

Le Lysis de des Périers à Vigenère : enjeux linguistiques, religieux, politiques

2014

OS Nat; National audience; no abstract

The Politics of Utopia: Walter Pater’s “Lacedaemon”

2016

Walter Pater is not usually considered as a politically committed writer, neither is Aestheticism of which he was the gifted theoretician with The Renaissance (1873). Although the political commitments of the Aesthetic movement have been questioned over the last two decades, both by including women aesthetes, and by re-evaluating the movement’s dissemination among the middle classes, discussion of Pater’s political ideas is almost non-existent. His Plato and Platonism (1893) is however not so remote from politics since it discusses Plato’s political philosophy. In particular, “Lacedaemon”, the chapter devoted to Sparta, enables Pater to intervene in the political debate from an original sta…

A multi-agent based cooperative control model applied to the management of vehicles-trains

2017

The use of individual vehicles is becoming more and more important in inner cities, leading to many side problems such as traffic jam, air pollution and accidents. Intelligent vehicles have been studied so as to overcome these problems. Some solutions provided by these works are already available to the general public market such as city safety systems, lane assists,... Many research works are focusing on finding suitable and acceptable solutions to these problems and dealing with traffic jam management. The proposal can tackle the traffic jam problem whether on system level or on individual vehicle providing better control and perception systems aimed at reducing time response and/or at in…

Teoria malarstwa abstrakcyjnego a Platońska koncepcja sztuki

2016

Tezą artykułu jest twierdzenie, że w założeniach teoretycznych malarstwa abstrakcyjnego odnajdujemy Platońską koncepcję sztuki. Jest to interesująca zbieżność, tym bardziej że jest ona niezależna, nie wynika z inspiracji abstrakcjonistów filozofią Platona, czy odwoływania się do jego koncepcji sztuki. Także Platon nie zakładał rozwoju takiego kierunku w sztuce, a mimo to u podstaw teoretycznych malarstwa abstrakcyjnego odnajdujemy te same prawdziwościowe, poznawcze założenia co w Platońskiej koncepcji sztuki. Określają one zarówno jej istotę, jak i funkcję oraz wartość. Stanowią także wyraz negatywnego stosunku Platona do malarstwa naśladowczego.

Zeusi e la bellezza di Elena

2004

Dall’antichità fino al Settecento (Plinio, Cicerone, Boccaccio, Ghiberti, Pico della Mirandola, Alberti, Ludovico Dolce, Bellori, Giovan Battista Marino, Batteux), vengono esaminate le varianti dell’aneddoto di Zeusi (V-IV sec. a. C.) che, per dipingere Elena nel tempio di Hera lacinia, prese a modello le cinque più belle fanciulle di Crotone. Nelle varie fonti la vicenda oscilla tra imitazione realistica e idealizzante; attraverso l’analisi di queste trasformazioni semantiche si tenta di dimostrare come la storia di Zeus, lungi dal costituire un mero topos, assurga a paradigma ermeneutico della creazione artistica.

Ivan Miroshnikov, The Gospel of Thomas and Plato: A Study of the Impact of Platonism on the “Fifth Gospel”, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 93, Bo…

2020

Obbedienza e persuasione. Due modelli della relazione medico-paziente nella Grecia antica

2015

Through the analysis of texts written between the 4th century BC and the 2nd century AD, the article reconstructs the emergence in ancient Greece of two opposing paradigms of the doctor-patient relationship, one based on dialogue and persuasion (peithó), and the other on the imposition of authority. In particular, the latter model proves to be amply suited to illustrating, in various Greek literature texts – and first of all the political dialogues of Plato –, the relationship between those who hold political power and those subjected to it. Taking into account a famous passage in the Laws, which in a very effective diptych contrasts the doctor of the free and the doctor of slaves (IV 720a-…

Dire addio alla verità? Il ruolo dell'eikos nella polemica antisofistica.

2012

This paper deals with the concept of eikos, traditionally translated as “probability” or “likelihood". The aim is to show the complexity and the theoretical worth of this notion and, more specifically, the crucial role it plays in the Platonic attack against Sophists. The starting point is a famous passage of Phaedrus (272d-273a) where Socrates says that the speaker who follows eikos must "say goodbye to the truth”. However, this negative attitude towards eikos is not the only one possible. Indeed, in previous literature, and especially in historiography and rhetoric, eikos does not oppose itself to truth. Instead, despite its fallibility, it is a heuristic device that is extremely useful i…