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Greek Philosophy (greek + philosophy)

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Selected Abstracts

Philhellenism and Greek Philosophy

PHILOSOPHICAL FORUM, Issue 2 2001
Nickolas Pappas
First page of article [source]

Soul and Self: Comparing Chinese Philosophy and Greek Philosophy

PHILOSOPHY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2008
Jiyuan Yu
Comparative philosophy has been interested in issues such as whether the familiar Western concepts of the soul and self can be applied in understanding Chinese philosophy about human selfhood and whether there are alternative Chinese modes of thinking about these concepts. I will outline a comparison of the main concerns of the Greeks and Chinese philosophers in their discussion about the soul and self, and examine some of the major comparative theories that are recently developed. The comparative discussion is significant in helping us understand each tradition's views of soul and self in its own terms, and in identifying alternatives to familiar modes of thinking. However, we should avoid looking for simplified uniformity in each tradition and overgeneralizing the contrasts between China and Greece. [source]

Akrasia in Greek Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus (Philosophia Antiqua 106).

THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2010
Edited by Christopher Bobonich, Pierre Destrée
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

WRITING THE HISTORY OF HISTORIED THOUGHT

METAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 5 2005
Joanne B. Waugh
Abstract: In Historied Thought, Constructed World, Joseph Margolis identifies the philosophical themes that will dominate philosophical discussions in the twenty-first century, given the recognition of the historicity of philosophical thought in the twentieth century. In what follows I examine these themes, especially cognitive intransparency, and the arguments presented in favor of them, noting the extent to which they rest on a view of language that takes a written text, and not speech, as the paradigm of language. I suggest if one takes speech as a mutual embodied action in a shared space as a model for language, the theme of cognitive intransparency,and the problems it brings in its wake,does not loom so large for those of us working in the history of philosophy. I conclude by showing that if we adopt this suggestion in relation to early Greek philosophy, that is, the period in the history of historied thought in which philosophy itself emerges as a linguistic and intellectual activity, we can better understand how and why philosophy emerged as it did,in the form of dialogues by Plato. [source]