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¿Ha Sostenido Platón En la “Enseñanza No Escrita” Una “Metafísica Dogmática y Sistemática"?Méthexis 6 (2): 37-53. 1993.
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Πάντα πράττειν. SOCRATE E IL BENE NELLA REPUBBLICAMéthexis 23 (1): 91-102. 2010.In this I draw attention to the strangeness (atopia) that Plato’s Republic has not only for Plato’s contemporaries, but also for us. This strangeness for us consists of the fact that Plato’s Republic does not allow for a plurality of philosophical opinions, but enforces one true philosophy (philosophia alêthê) or one conception of the Good to all citizens. The platonic Republic describes not only a state, but also a kind of pre-Christian church. Second, I emphasize that the Socratic principle in…Read more
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Zenons Paradoxien der Bewegung Und Die Struktur Von Raum Und Zeit. Eine RetraktationMéthexis 8 (1): 5-31. 1995.
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Ist die idee Des guten nicht transzendent oder ist Sie es doch? Nochmals platons epekeina thσ oɼσiaσMéthexis 14 (1): 7-21. 2001.
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2Hat Plato in der "Ungeschriebenen Lehre" Eine “Dogmatische Metaphysik Und Systematik” Vertreten?Méthexis 6 (1): 37-54. 1993.
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Zeno’s Metrical Paradox of Extension and Descartes’ Mind-Body-ProblemMéthexis 13 (1): 139-151. 2000.
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20OnIn Rafael Ferber, Christoph Horn & Christof Rapp (eds.), Beck'sche Reihe, . pp. 307-312. 2002.
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7What did the early Greek philosophers think about animals and their lives? How did they view plants? And, ultimately, what type of relationship did they envisage between all sorts of living beings? On these topics there is evidence of a prolonged investigation by several Presocratics. However, scholarship has paid little attention to these issues and to the surprisingly "modern" development they received in Presocratics' doctrines. This book fills this lacuna through a detailed (and largely unpr…Read more
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10Wege und Seitenwege der Philosophie: Von Anaximander bis WittgensteinDe Gruyter. 2023.Was ist eine gute Weltanschauung? Die Aufsätze behandeln einige der großen Themen der westlichen Philosophie unter neuen Gesichtspunkten, wie z. B. das Apeiron des Anaximander, das Leib-Seele-Problem bei Descartes und Wittgensteins Begriff der Sprache und Lebensform. Sie beleuchten aber auch Seitenwege wie z. B. einen Ausflug Schopenhauers, ein „Plagiat" Nietzsches und einige der Aphorismen Ludwig Hohls.
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301Socrates' "Flight into the Logoi": a non-standard interpretation of the founding document of Plato's dialecticIn Melina G. Mouzala (ed.), Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception, De Gruyter. 2023.The paper proposes (1.) a non-standard interpretation of the proverbial expression “deuteros plous” by giving a fresh look to Phaedo, 99c9-d1. Then (2.) it proceeds to the philosophical problem raised in this passage according to this interpretation, that is, the problem of the “hypothesis” or the “unproved principle”. It indicates finally (3.) the kernel of truth contained in the standard Interpretation and it concludes with some remarks on the “weakness of the logoi”.
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11This is a revised short overview of Plato’s “greatest thing to be learned” or the “greatest lesson” (megiston mathêma) – the Idea of the Good.
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10La seconda polis: Introduzione alle Leggi di Platone by Bruno CentroneJournal of the History of Philosophy 61 (2): 325-326. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:La seconda polis: Introduzione alle Leggi di Platone by Bruno CentroneRafael FerberBruno Centrone. La seconda polis: Introduzione alle Leggi di Platone. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2021. Pp. 348. Paperback, €32.30.After the death of some of the great Italian scholars who devoted a considerable part of their lifetimes to the study of Socrates and Plato, including Gabriele Giannantoni (1932–98), Margherita Isnardi Parente (1928–…Read more
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186Goodness (the good, the Agathon)In Gerald Press & Mateo Duque (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato, Bloomsbury. pp. 248-251. 2022.This is a revised short overview of Plato’s “greatest thing to be learned” or the “greatest lesson” (megiston mathêma) – the Idea of the Good.
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175Donald R. Morrison (Hg.), The Cambridge Companion to SocratesPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 120 (1): 211-213. 2013.Book review of: Donald R. Morrison (Hg.), The Cambridge Companion to Socrates, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010
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186Platon: Meisterdenker der Antike by Thomas Alexander Szlezåk (review) (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 60 (4): 687-688. 2022.This is a review of: Platon: Meisterdenker der Antike by Thomas Alexander Szlezåk (review)
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275Platon: Meisterdenker der Antike by Thomas Alexander SzlezákJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (4): 687-688. 2022.Since 1976, when Thomas A. Szlezák held his inaugural lecture as a private lecturer at the University of Zurich entitled "The Dialogue Form and Esotericism: On the Interpretation of the Platonic Dialogue the Phaedrus", the now-emeritus professor at Tübingen has advocated a particular interpretation of the Platonic dialogues and especially of the Phaedrus: namely, that what is referred to in the latter dialogue—without further explanation—as "more valuable" than what is set down in writing corres…Read more
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10Correction to: A Numbers‑Based Approach to a Free Particle’s Proper SpacetimeFoundations of Physics 52 (1): 1-2. 2022.
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20A Numbers-Based Approach to a Free Particle’s Proper SpacetimeFoundations of Physics 51 (5): 1-21. 2021.This paper contains a proposal for a free, nonzero-rest-mass particle’s proper spacetime, determined exclusively by the particle’s rest mass \ and numbers. The approach defines proper time as de Broglie time, which is isomorphic to a sequence of natural numbers \ that count de Broglie time units \\). The approach is based on defining the spatial coordinate as proper following the constructive definition of positive and negative integers as all possible differences of ordered pairs of natural num…Read more
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457Key concepts in philosophy, 2nd, revised and enlarged editionAcademia. 2021.This book provides an introduction to six key concepts within philosophy: philosophy itself, language, knowledge, truth, being and the good. At the same time, it aims to initiate its readers into the processes of philosophical thinking. The book is addressed to students and lay persons, but also contains new ideas for specialists. It is written in a clear, accessible and engaging style. The German version appeared in eight editions and the second revised and updated English editon has the potent…Read more
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224Review of: Jorgenson, Chad, The Embodied Soul in Plato’s Later Thought (Cambridge Classical Studies), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018. (review)Augustiniana 70 407-410. 2020.This review tries to show that even if Plato ties the soul in the later dialogues more to the body, he still adheres in the Timaeus to the separation of the soul from the body as far as it is possible for humans, and in the Laws to the soul as a separated entity whose union with the body is in no way better than separation.
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884Second sailing towards immortality and GodMnemosyne 74 (3): 371-400. 2021.This paper deals with the deuteros plous, literally ‘the second voyage’, proverbially ‘the next best way’, discussed in Plato’s Phaedo, the key passage being Phd. 99e4-100a3. I argue that (a) the ‘flight into the logoi’ can have two different interpretations, a standard one and a non-standard one. The issue is whether at 99e-100a Socrates means that both the student of erga and the student of logoi consider images (‘the standard interpretation’), or the student of logoi does not consider images …Read more
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288Platonische AufsätzeDe Gruyter. 2020.The volume contains a selection of essays on Plato from his Socratic beginnings to his aftermath in the works of Donald Davidson and Hans Georg Gadamer. Particular attention is paid to the Idea of the Good and the question of its transcendence and immanence.
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22Platonische AufsätzeDe Gruyter. 2020.The volume contains a selection of essays on Plato from his Socratic beginnings to his aftermath in the works of Donald Davidson and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Particular attention is paid to the Idea of the Good and the question of its transcendence and immanence.
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1209Mortality of the Soul and Immortality of the Active Mind (ΝΟΥΣ ΠΟΊΗΤΊΚÓΣ) in Aristotle. Some hints. Kronos : philosophical journal, 7:132-140. KopierenKronos : Philosophical Journal 7 132-140. 2018.The paper gives (I) a short introduction to Aristotle’s theory of the soul in distinction to Plato’s and tries again (II) to answer the question of whether the individual or the general active mind of human beings is immortal by interpreting “When separated (χωρισθεìς)” (de An. III, 5, 430a22) as the decisive argument for the latter view. This strategy of limiting the question has the advantage of avoiding the probably undecidable question of whether this active νοῦς is human or divine. The pape…Read more
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5960Is the Idea of the Good Beyond Being? Plato's "epekeina tês ousias" RevisitedIn Debra Nails & Harold Tarrant (eds.), Second Sailing: Alternative Perspectives on Plato, Societas Scientiarum Fennica. pp. 197-203. 2015.The article tries to prove that the famous formula "epekeina tês ousias" has to be understood in the sense of being beyond being and not only in the sense of being beyond essence. We make hereby three points: first, since pure textual exegesis of 509b8–10 seems to lead to endless controversy, a formal proof for the metaontological interpretation could be helpful to settle the issue; we try to give such a proof. Second, we offer a corollary of the formal proof, showing that not only self-predicat…Read more
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364Le Bien de Platon et le Problème de la transcendance du Principe: Encore une Fois L' EPEKEINA TÊS OUSIAS de Platon.CHORA : Revue d'Études Anciennes Et Médiévales 15 31-43. 2018.The article treats again the question of whether «the Idea of the Good is a Reality in the Universe, or beyond it. Is it immanent or transcendent ?» (Rufus Jones, 1863 1948). Plato scholars such as Matthias Baltes (1940 2003) and Luc Brisson have defended the thesis that Plato’s Idea of the Good is, on the one hand, beyond being (epekeina tês ousias) in dignity and power, but on the other, is nevertheless not transcendent over being. The article delivers first (I.) the most important arguments f…Read more
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898Deuteros Plous, the immortality of the soul and the ontological argument for the existence of GodIn Gabriele Cornelli, Thomas M. Robinson & Francisco Bravo (eds.), Plato's Phaedo: Selected Papers From the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum, Academia Verlag. pp. 221-230. 2018.The paper deals with the "deuteros plous", literally ‘the second voyage’, proverbially ‘the next best way’, discussed in Plato’s "Phaedo", the key passage being Phd. 99e4–100a3. The second voyage refers to what Plato’s Socrates calls his “flight into the logoi”. Elaborating on the subject, the author first (I) provides a non-standard interpretation of the passage in question, and then (II) outlines the philosophical problem that it seems to imply, and, finally, (III) tries to apply this philosop…Read more
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380André Höhn: Beobachtungen zur Formung des Sokratesbildes im platonischen 'Symposion' (review)Gnomon 86 (7): 644-646. 2014.