The Uses of Ancient Philosophy

2022 ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Dmitri Levitin
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Philosophy

La filosofía en la sociedad de la ciencia y la interpretación. Entrevista a Alejandro Vigo

Open Insight ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
David González Ginoccio ◽  
Mauricio Lecón Rosales
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt

Alejandro G. Vigo (Buenos Aires, 1958) es Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (1988) y Doctor por la de Heidelberg (1994) con una tesis sobre la teoría de la acción aristotélica, escrita bajo la supervisión del Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wieland (cfr. Vigo, 1996). Ha impartido cursos de griego clásico, filosofía antigua, Kant y neokantismo, fenomenología y hermenéutica, teoría de la acción y ética. Ha estudiado y traducido a Platón y Aristóteles. Sobre ellos y autores como Heidegger, Suárez, Fichte, Hegel, Husserl y Gadamer ha publicado alrededor de cien artículos, voces en diccionarios, reseñas especializadas, notas en prensa, etc. Actualmente es profesor ordinario del departamento de filosofía de la Universidad de Navarra. Ha sido coeditor de Méthexis: International Journal for Ancient Philosophy y es Miembro Titular del Institut International de Philosophie, École Normal Supérieur – CNRS; participa en los consejos editoriales de revistas especializadas como Escritos de Filosofía, Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía,$QXDULR)LORVyÀ- co, Méthodus, Tópicos y Open Insight. En el pasado simposio de la Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Bamberg, 24-27.III.2011) recibió el Premio de Investigación Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, que reconoce anualmente la trayectoria científica de académicos de todas las áreas. El prof. Vigo realiza actualmente una estancia de investigación en la Universidad de Halle para estudiar la teoría de la acción de Kant.

The Enneads of Plotinus

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kalligas
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Christian Thought

This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, this commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads. For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, the volume provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.

Ancient Philosophy, Quantum Reality and Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anindo Bhattacharjee
Keyword(s):  
Uncertainty Principle ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
Werner Heisenberg ◽  
Deterministic Models ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Quantum Reality ◽  
New View

The romanticism of management for numbers, metrics and deterministic models driven by mathematics, is not new. It still exists. This is exactly the problem which classical physicists had in the late 19th century until Werner Heisenberg brought the uncertainty principle and opened the doors of quantum physics that challenged the deterministic view of the physical world mostly driven by the Newtonian view. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty principle of management and then list a set of factors which capture this uncertainty quite well and arrive at a new view of scientific management thought. The new view which we call as the Quantum view of Management (QVM) will be based on the major tenets from the ancient philosophical traditions viz., Jainism, Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Greek philosophers (like Hereclitus) etc.

Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Agent ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Synoptic View

In a tradition inspired by the Delphic injunction to ‘know thyself’, ancient philosophical works contain a variety of treatments of self-knowledge—of knowing the content of certain kinds of one’s own thought, or knowing one’s own status as a knower or moral agent. This book draws together contributions from an international collection of scholars working in ancient philosophy, and explores self-knowledge in ancient thought in Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers, and Plotinus, noting continuities and discontinuities with its contemporary counterpart. The nature and structure of ancient self-knowledge is investigated in different thinkers—whether it is higher-order or a kind of self-presence, consists in a synoptic view or is diachronic, is arrived at directly via self-perception or some other kind of grasp, or mediated by dialogue or friendship with others. So too the book enquires into the relation of self-knowledge to virtue or tranquillity, either as a condition on attaining that state, or a result of the agent’s development, resulting from a process of effortful reflection.

Varieties of Teleology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Payne
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Course Of Action

This chapter considers the teleological claims made by Plato in his writings, according to which an event or action or natural phenomenon occurs for the sake of some end. Students of ancient philosophy have identified two varieties of teleology: intentional teleology and the teleology of nature. These varieties of teleology do not allow us to understand two important teleological claims present in Plato’s writing. In the ascent passage of the Symposium, the lover of the ascent acts for the sake of understanding the Form of Beauty. In the image of the Cave in the Republic, a prisoner ascends from the cave for the sake of seeing the sun. To understand these cases of acting for the sake of an end that is not intended as a goal, a third variety of teleology is needed. This variety centers on the performance of functions or characteristic activities in the course of action.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Perceptual Content ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Middle Ages

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field, and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LIII contains: an article on several of Zeno of Elea’s paradoxes and the nihilist interpretation of Eudemus of Rhodes; an article on the coherence of Thrasymachus’ challenge in Plato’s Republic book 1; another on Plato’s treatment of perceptual content in the Theaetetus and the Phaedo; an article on why Aristotle thinks that hypotheses are material causes of conclusions, and another on why he denies shame is a virtue; and a book review of a new edition of a work possibly by Apuleius and Middle Platonist political philosophy.

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