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Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome
In October of 2007, the Universidad Nacional de San Martin (Argentina) hosted an International Symposium on the philosophy of Parmenides to celebrate the creation of the …
Plotinus Ennead IV.3-4.29
For Plotinus, the nature and status of the human soul is one of the central problems of philosophy. Ennead IV.3-4.29 constitutes his most pene trating enquiry into this topic, …
Plotinus Ennead IV.8
Plotinus was much exercised by Plato's doctrines of the soul. In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of "the divine Plato, who has said in many places in his works many …
Plotinus Ennead IV.4.30-45 & IV.5
Ennead IV.4.30-45 and IV.5 retrieves the unity in this last section of Plotinus' treatise on Problems concerning the Soul. Combining translation with commentary, Gurtler enhances …
Reading Aristotle
Physics 7.3 is one of the crucial texts in Aristotle's theory of change, in which he deals with the question of what alteration is and what it is not. Aristotle discusses change in …
Plotinus Ennead V.8
Plotinus' Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as an image of divine beauty against …
Plotinus Ennead I.6
Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the title may suggest a work on …
Plato's Late Ontology
Prior to the publication of Plato's Late Ontology in 1983, there was general agreement among Plato scholars that the theses attributed to Plato in Book A of Aristotle's Metaphysics …
The Route of Parmenides
In this careful study of the fragments of Parmenides' hexameter poem, ""On Nature,"" Alexander P. D. Mourelatos combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches …
Plato's Universe
A distinguished Platonic scholar discusses the impact of the Greek discovery of the ""cosmos"" on man's perception of his place in the universe, describes the problems this posed, …
One Book, The Whole Universe
The much-anticipated anthology on Plato's Timaeus-Plato's singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the …
Black Market Truth
A secret concealed for centuries, shrouded in myth, silenced by stone.A secret that if unleashed threatens to shake the very foundation of Western civilization.A secret that can …