Creatura by Paolo E. Serpieri

Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context

From being considered as an job played in functional and political contexts, knowledge in fourth-century BC Athens got here to be conceived by way of theoria, or the clever guy as a ''spectator'' of fact. This booklet examines how philosophers of the interval articulated the recent notion of data and the way cultural stipulations inspired this improvement.

Thor. Die Asgard-Saga

God and Greek Philosophy: Studies in the Early History of Natural Theology

"God and Greek Philosophy" is a research of the most arguments for the lifestyles of a god or first causal precept within the historic Greek philosophers. Gerson's examine of old Greek philosophers comprises the pre-Socratics - Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and sceptics, and Plotinus. within the Greek philosophers, arguments for the lifestyles of God are part of normal theology, that's exceptional from and held to be greater to mythic and civic theology.

Verbal Art: A Philosophy of Literature and Literary Experience

Pettersson demonstrates the results and functions of the idea via a sequence of particular reports of literary works, taking care to teach that his idea is suitable with a large number of views. Combining an intimate wisdom of recent literary conception and the aesthetics of literature with cutting edge purposes of linguistics and cognitive psychology to the literary paintings, he presents an intensive remedy of primary difficulties within the quarter, together with the idea that of a textual content or paintings, the concept that of shape, and the individuality of the literary use of language.