The aim of this paper is to explain Aristotle’s views on education with specific
reference to Intellectual and Character education. Aristotle asserts that the
theory and practice of education in general must undoubtedly ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The aim of this paper will be to offer a comparison of violent
and non-violent types of resistance amongst Jews and early
Christians to the early Roman Empire on the one hand, and
similar forms of resistance to modern ...