In an effort to distance himself from the Democritan conception
of the atomic particle, Epicurus posited three essential
characteristics to explain the movement of atoms in the void —
mass, velocity and something that ...
A number of ethical issues and dilemmas are to be found in policing. Police
officers do engage in unethical behaviour which often originates from the
norms of the organisational culture. However, the working in the world ...
Grounding itself in Thomism, this paper seeks to explore the
status quaestionis of the science and faith dialogue. It argues
that faith and reason are both routes to knowledge through
theological and scientific inquiry ...
Protagoras’ declaration that “man is the measure of all things” is
conventionally discussed in the context of epistemology. There
was, however, a communal or social dimension to this even in
ancient Greece. In the ...
The logical role of the paradox is not to state a truth whose
paradoxical nature lies in the difficulty we feel in maintaining it as
true, but rather to state somefhing thaf will cause fo feel as fa/se
something else ...
This paper offers a comparative analysis of the ways in which Plato used
mythical language in order to convey his views on love and politics. For
politics, the myth of the metals in the Republic and of Atlantis in ...
This article discusses the immortality of the soul as Plato
demonstrates it mainly in the final argument of his dialogue
“Phaedo”. Plato raises four different arguments for the
immortality of the soul: The Argument from ...
In my view a philosopher is a person of wisdom who produces a
guide to life, providing us with some tools for dealing with
practical problems and survival issues on at least five adaptation
domains. These are a) ...
Two recent arguments trace the genealogy of human rights back
to either Paul on the one hand or the Stoics on the other. First,
Crossan and Reed (2004) suggest that although Paul intended
his egalitarian vision and ...
The pursuit of justice in the Republic commences when the
elderly, wealthy Cephalus suggests that justice involves nothing
more than telling the truth and repaying one’s debts. But
Socrates points out that by following ...
The influence of the Platonic metaphysical tradition on the
development of modern Western political institutions, and the
modern state in particular has been quite significant. The
influence of the modern Western state ...
The relationship between Plato’s conception of the existence of a
soul as compared to the Vedantic view of a soul will be
analysed. Vedanta philosophy holds in agreement with Plato that
there is a magazine of knowledge ...
Plato’s theory of punishment distinguishes scientifically
administered measures, which may or may not take the form of
actual punishment designed to cure a criminal of his offence
which is a disease of the soul, not ...
The immensity of the task I undertook, namely, to venture into the philosophy of Plato regarding his views on crime and punishment, only struck me the moment I started researching his relevant works. Therefore, right from ...
In this paper I attempt a preliminary investigation of a family of
cognitively significant emotions (which includes inter alia interest,
attention, surprise) while focusing more specifically upon the
philosophically ...
This article reflects upon notions of an African paradigm, as well as the ideals on which
social and normative interaction and principles can be based in contemporary society. It
is argued that Western and African ...
In this paper I offer a preliminary investigation of the modalities
of Plato’s reception as evidenced in Marsilio Ficino’s Letters to
Lorenzo De’ Medici. I examine some features of the genre
speculum principis, which ...
In this paper, I propose to examine some of the ways in which
Plato’s elaboration of transcendent love penetrated and
influenced English Renaissance poetry, specifically Edmund
Spenser’s, and to point out how certain ...
The Platonic idea of justice is based on the historical possibility
of a flourishing political community. From this perspective, it
may be argued that the fundamental principle of the right to life
provides the normative ...
Aristotle views the courageous man as someone who endures
and fears the right things, for the right motive, in the right
manner, and at the right time, given that a courageous man feels
and acts according to the merits ...