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471Intellectualisme et causalité chez Hegel, et les limites de la science moderneArchives de Philosophie 1 (1): 55-75. 2005.L’objet de cet article est double: 1) montrer que la Science de la logique de Hegel est incapable de rendre compte de la nature de la relation de causalité. Hegel explique plutôt la relation de causalité en la réduisant à une relation de conditionnalité. 2) Soutenir ensuite que cet échec n’est pas le propre de l’hégélianisme mais qu’il est le résultat inévitable de tout effort intellectuel pour comprendre la relation de causalité, quand on ne prend pas en compte la contribution de la perception …Read more
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242The Ontological Argument ReconsideredJournal of Philosophical Research 15 279-310. 1990.The ontological argument- proposed by St. Anselm and developed by Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and Marx- furnishes a key to understanding the relationship between thought and reality. In this article, we shall focus on Hegel’s attitude towards the ontological argument as set out in his Science of Logic, where it appears as a paradigm of the relationship between thought and reality. It should be remarked, moreover, that our choice of the subject was not random and that it was selected for the…Read more
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231Review of Hila Naot, Raft on the Open Sea—Man and the World in Jan Patočka’s (1907–1977) Phenomenological Philosophy, (in Hebrew) Jerusalem: Carmel 2020, 536 pp. 107 shekels (review)Studies in East European Thought 73 (3): 381-383. 2021.review of Hila Naot, Raft on the open sea—mand and the world in Jan Patocka
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211Subject and Consciousness: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Self-ConsciousnessRowman & Littlefield. 1989.Title on spine: Subject & consciousness.
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184The moral intellectualism of Plato’s SocratesBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 13 (1): 1-14. 2008.Commentators do not take Socrates’ theses in the Hippias Minor seriously. They believe it is an aporetic dialogue and even that Socrates does not mean what he says. Hence they are unable to understand the presuppositions behind Socrates’ two interconnected theses: that those who do wrong and lie voluntarily are better than those who do wrong unintentionally, and that no one does wrong and lies voluntarily. Arguing that liars are better than the unenlightened, Socrates concludes that there are no…Read more
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165Time, Understanding, and WillDiogenes 48 (190): 3-21. 2000.In the passage from the Enneads devoted to discussing and defining the nature of time, it is written that first one must experience eternity, which, as everyone knows, is the model and archetype of time. This initial warning, which is especially serious because we trust in its sincerity, appears to wipe out all hope of finding common ground with its author.Jorge Luis Borges, History of EternitySo let us leave the Platonists to wander off down a blind alley. Poor simpletons, they think they will …Read more
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151The Belief in Reality and the Reality of BeliefGiornale di Metafisica 17 (1-2): 71-85. 1995.The ontological arguments (OA) discussion is about the relations between essence and existence, and between analytic and synthetic judgments. Rationalists asserts that essence determines existence. Empiricists assert that existence cannot be deduced from thought. However, both made the error of disconnecting the objective existence of God from subjective thought about Him. We propose to demonstrate two interconnected theses: A) In the course of its historical development, the OA did not manage t…Read more
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122The modern misunderstanding of Aristotle's theory of motionJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 26 (1). 1995.In the Physics, Aristotle defines motion as 'the actuality of what is potentially, qua potential' (Phys. 201b5). This definition has been interpreted countless times and has been the subject of heated controvery. At issue today is whether ὲντελέχεια refers to motions as a process or a state. Accordingly, if the idea of ὲντελέχεια is believed to refer to a process, it is translated to mean actualization. If on the other hand it is taken to refer to a state, it is translated as meaning actuality…Read more
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103The Ontological Argument ReconsideredJournal of Philosophical Research 15 279-310. 1990.The ontological argument--first proposed by St. Anselm and subsequently deveIoped by Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel and Marx--furnishes a key to understanding the relationship between thought and reality. In this article we shall focus on Hegel’s attitude towards the ontological argument as set out in his Science of Logic, where it appears as a paradigm of the relationship between thought and reality. It should be remarked, moreover, that our choice of the subject was not random and that it was…Read more
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100Praxis and poesis in Aristotle's practical philosophyJournal of Value Inquiry 24 (3): 185-198. 1990.All the paradoxes in the Engberg-Pedersen interpretation and all the present-day discussions about whether energeia is an activity or a state, are not, in my opinion, the result of a defective reading of Aristotle but, rather, the influence of the prevailing values of our industrial society. These values - held, as it seems, by these commentators - are conspicuously teleological: they prevent us from grasping the qualitative difference between praxis and poesis and between energeia and kinesis. …Read more
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82Relation and object in Plato's approach to knowledgeTheoria 53 (2-3): 141-159. 1987.THE aim of this paper is to explain a paradox in Plato's philosophy. On the one hand, Plato reduces virtue to knowledge; on the other, he rejects the possibility of knowledge or at least has serious doubts that it exists. I shall propose in this paper that the definition of virtue as knowledge is a logical outcome of Plato's denial of the particular aspect of knowledge as cognitive relation. This paper may also be considered as an attempt to resolve the Hintikka‐Santas polemic about whether ther…Read more
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58The Hermeneutics of the Young Marx: According To Marx's Approach To the Philosophy of Democritus and EpicurusDiogenes 37 (148): 28-41. 1989.In the History of Philosophy, the atomistic physics of Epicurus and of Democritus have been considered as very similar.1 Con trary to the more conventional view, Marx considers this similarity
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49Circularity of Thought in Hegel's LogicReview of Metaphysics 44 (1). 1990.HEGEL says that "when enquiry is made as to the kind of predicate belonging to [a] subject, the act of judgement necessarily implies an underlying concept [Begriff]; but this concept is expressed only by the predicate." According to this, some concept of the subject must precede predication. This circularity can be formulated as follows: If the statement is the "factory" in which concepts are produced, how is it that the concepts precede the statement and are not merely produced within it in the…Read more
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48The Incongruity Between Knowledge and Valuation in David Hume's Theory of Knowledge a Reconsideration of Hume's SkepticismPhilosophical Inquiry 17 (3-4): 1-12. 1995.
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48The Myth of Protagoras and Plato's Theory of MeasurementHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 4 (4). 1987.
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43Toward a Rationality of Emotions (review)International Studies in Philosophy 29 (2): 145-146. 1997.
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40Le rejet de la connaissance de la connaissance, la these centrale du Charmide de PlatonRevue Philosophique De Louvain 106 (4): 663-693. 2008.
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39The torn human activity: A response to Alfred guy's “the role of aristotle'spraxis today” (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 27 (2): 231-234. 1993.
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34On Justice and Legitimation. A Critique of Jürgen Habermas' Concept of "Historical Reconstructivism"Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 44 (2). 1990.
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20Una crítica del problema mente-cuerpo en la tradición analíticaAnuario Filosófico 40 (90): 647-672. 2007.Everybody knows, by experience, that the mind can "determine" the body to motion and rest. However, nobody knows how this phenomenon is possible. This ignorance is a consequence of the limitations of our categories of thought. The awareness of our ignorance will lead to understand why we are unable to fathom the link between body and mind.
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17Plato and Protagoras: Truth and Relativism in Ancient Greek PhilosophyLexington Books. 1999.Are human beings antithetical in nature? Is there a radical difference between pleasure, efficiency, and moral good, or is the conflict only imaginary? These have traditionally been considered the central questions of Plato's most vivid dialogue, the Protagoras. Many interpreters have seen this dialogue as a confrontation between the moralist and the relativist . This dichotomy is manifest when Plato and Protagoras discuss theoretical questions concerning either knowledge of facts or knowledge o…Read more
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16The sources of Wittgenstein’s negation of the knowing subjectSemiotica 113 (1-2): 159-170. 1997.
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16The use of error as an argument in the language of human sciences: The dogmatic use of errorSemiotica 120 (1-2): 139-160. 1998.
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