SIMPLICIUS ON THE FILLING OF SPACE, IN CAELO 655.9–656.5: A DELIBERATE MISTAKE?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
D. R. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Alexander Of Aphrodisias ◽  
The One ◽  
Cover Up ◽  
False Claim ◽  
Frequent Reference

In In cael. 655.9–656.5 Simplicius reports an argument in which an apparent justification is offered for the false claim by Aristotle that ‘pyramids’ (regular tetrahedra) can completely fill space. This argument was analysed by Ian Mueller in an Appendix to his translation of In caelo, and the outline of an alternative has been presented in Myrto Hatzimichali's study of Potamo of Alexandria. In this article I contest Mueller's interpretation, and expand on the one reported by Hatzimichali. I also contest Mueller's claim that a version of his interpretation can be found in the partial commentary by Peter of Auvergne. It is suggested here that the ‘justification’ reported by Simplicius is a deliberate slip in logic, which is accompanied by a carefully constructed cover-up involving some quite tricky geometry. Simplicius makes frequent reference to Alexander of Aphrodisias, but it is argued here that he has been very selective with these citations.

THEMISTIUS AGAINST PORPHYRY (?) ON ‘WHY WE DO NOT REMEMBER’

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Robert Roreitner
Keyword(s):  
De Anima ◽  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Alexander Of Aphrodisias ◽  
Agent Intellect ◽  
The One

Abstract This article sheds new light on Themistius’ argument in what is philosophically the most original (and historically the most influential) section of his extant work, namely On Aristotle's On the Soul 100.16–109.3: here, Themistius offers a systematic interpretation of Aristotle's ‘agent’ intellect and its ‘potential’ and ‘passive’ counterparts. A solution to two textual difficulties at 101.36–102.2 is proposed, supported by the Arabic translation. This allows us to see that Themistius engages at length with a Platonizing reading of the enigmatic final lines of De anima III.5, where Aristotle explains ‘why we do not remember’ (without specifying when and what). This Platonizing reading (probably inspired by Aristotle's early dialogue Eudemus) can be safely identified with the one developed in a fragmentary text extant only in Arabic under the title Porphyry's treatise On the soul. While Themistius rejects this reading, he turns out to be heavily influenced by the author's interpretation of the ‘agent’, ‘potential’ and ‘passive’ intellect. These findings offer us a new glimpse into Themistius’ philosophical programme: he is searching for an alternative to both the austere (and, by Themistius’ lights, distorted) Aristotelianism of Alexander of Aphrodisias and the all too Platonizing reading of Aristotle adopted by thinkers such as Porphyry.

scholarly journals Rivalutare l’Etica Eudemia. A proposito di A. Kenny, The Aristotelian Ethics, II edizione

Elenchos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-164
Author(s):  
Carlo Natali
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
Alexander Of Aphrodisias ◽  
Aristotelian Ethics ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

AbstractIn the paper I discuss three theses defended by A. Kenny: (1) in antiquity up to Aspasius or to Alexander of Aphrodisias the EE was considered the most important version of Aristotle’s ethical discourse; (2) the idea that the common books belonged to the one or to the other treatise; (3) the opposition between the theory of happiness of EN I and X and that of EE II and VIII.

A study of bauxite

1928 ◽  
Vol 21 (120) ◽  
pp. 407-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. V. M. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Economic Importance ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Great Length ◽  
Rapid Accumulation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Frequent Reference

Bauxite is of twofold interest due firstly to its economic importance, and secondly to the scope it affords for scientific investigation. When these two reasons are taken into consideration, one can easily account for the enormous and rapid accumulation of literature concerning this subject. Any attempt to give a detailed account of the literature will only mean unnecessary repetition of what has been already dealt with at great length by several writers, of whom Anderson and Fox may be specially mentioned. The relation between bauxite and laterite is so intimate that a detailed study of the one is impossible without any reference to the other, and as such the description of and frequent reference to the latter should not be considered as any digression from the subject.

Power Lines, Magnetic Fields, and Cancer

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge F. Goldstein ◽  
Martin Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Birth Defects ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Ice Cream ◽  
Power Lines ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Cover Up ◽  
Leukemia In Children

We are old enough to have had iceboxes in our kitchens when we were children. Every few days an iceman came through our neighborhoods, in Jerusalem leading a donkey cart and in the Bronx in a truck, each full of blocks of ice. Housewives would put a sign in the window or call out to him to let him know how big a piece to leave. We were very proud of our first home refrigerators; not everyone in the neighborhood had one. Refrigerators were easier to use: we did not have to worry about missing the iceman, the food stayed fresh longer, and ice cream could be kept in the freezer compartment. We cannot imagine modern life without electric power, and not just for the convenience of keeping ice cream. When a study published in 1979 suggested that magnetic fields from the electric wiring in homes and from outside power lines might cause leukemia in children, it was taken seriously, and not only by scientists. Public awareness and concern grew rapidly as these results were publicized in the media, and today they are one of the more controversial suspected environmental hazards. On the one hand, claims have been made that they are responsible for clusters of various cancers, birth defects, and neurological disorders, which are covered up by power companies and government agencies. On the other hand, there have been contemptuous dismissals of such claims with the counterclaim that they could not possibly hurt anyone and that irresponsible journalists are creating a panic. Some examples of extreme positions give the flavor of the controversy. A series of articles written by the journalist Paul Brodeur for the New Yorker magazine, followed by two books, Currents of Death and The Great Power- Line Cover-up, describe health problems in a number of neighborhoods and schools in which there was reason to believe high magnetic fields were present.

The Emotional Memory of Directing

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
HERBERT BLAU
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Memory ◽  
Stage Fright ◽  
Method Acting ◽  
Physical Risk ◽  
The One ◽  
Emotion Memory ◽  
Cover Up

Stanislavsky's ‘emotion memory’, basic to Method acting, is a pretext, if not subtext, for reflections on the vicissitudes of directing, most particularly as it confronts the one inescapable emotion, stage fright, which may be seen, rather, as an existential condition – without which, actually, there would be no theatre. Or at least, without a sense of psychic or physical risk, no theatre of any consequence. If susceptibility to such risk is expected of the actor, whose technique is a way of dealing with stage fright, much of what is done in directing is an equivocal cover up, because the credibility of performance draws upon that fright, hiding it and exploiting it, all the more as we approach the limits of performance. As for the emotion memories of the essay, and the emotions about memory too, these are drawn from a long career in theatre, marked by experiment and controversy, and an insistence that, for all the stress on emotions, the mandate of performance is to bring it into thought, or what – neurally, analytically, bodies, minds, psyche, senses, every form of intelligence activated – is referred to as blooded thought.

Alexander of Aphrodisias on Divine Providence: Two Problems

1982 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Sharples
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
The World ◽  
Alexander Of Aphrodisias ◽  
The One ◽  
Topical Interest

The position on the question of divine providence of the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. A.D. 200) is of particular interest. It marks an attempt to find a via media between the Epicurean denial of any divine concern for the world, on the one hand, and the Stoic view that divine providence governs it in every detail, on the other.2 As an expression of such a middle course it finds a place in later classifications of views concerning providence.3 It is also of topical interest: Alexander's fullest discussion, in his treatise De providentia (On Providence) (surviving only in two Arabic versions), has only recently been edited and translated,4 although some aspects of his position had long been known from other texts preserved in Greek.5

scholarly journals Yugoslavia on the pages of the journal Slavyane (1942–1958)

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-126
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Zaytsev
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Soviet Foreign Policy ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Cover Up

The journal Slavyane was created by the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) as an organ of internal and external political propaganda aimed at Russian-speaking Slavs. It reflected the pullback of Soviet foreign policy from proletarian internationalism. The policy of its editorial board towards Yugoslavia repeated the one of the Party, but sensitive subjects were avoided or covered with a delay on the pages of the journal. Josip Broz Tito as spokesman for the aspirations of Yugoslav peoples was extolle since 1943 while D. Mihajlović’s activities had not been covered until his condemnation in October 1943. The journal supported the government of the People’s Federative Republic of Yugoslavia until early 1948, condemned it since late 1949 to early 1953, kept silence on Yugoslavia for several months in 1948–1949, 1953–1954, 1956, 1957 and 1958. Each time such deliberate silence had been caused by the aggravation or, on the contrary, by attempts to break ice in relations between the Soviet Union and People’s Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) / the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia / the Union of Yugoslavian Communists. The only exception from the rule seems to be Issue 5/1953 of the journal which contains anti-Tito insults but they may be due to struggle on top of the Soviet government. Overall, the policy of the editorial board was marked by more caution and desire to cover up problems than the policy of Party newspapers.

scholarly journals Kant and Russell on Leibniz’ Existential Assertions

Sophia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Rossi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Real Property ◽  
The One ◽  
False Claim

AbstractLeibniz believed in a God that has the power to create beings and whose existence could be a priori demonstrated. Kant (KrV, A 592-602/B 620-630) objected that similar demonstrations all presuppose the false claim that existence is a real property. Russell (London and New York: Routledge, 1992) added that if existence were a real property Leibniz should have concluded that God does not actually have the power to create anything at all. First, I show that Leibniz’ conception of existence is incompatible with the one that Russell presupposes. Subsequently, I argue that on Leibniz’ conception of existence Russell’s objection is immediately undermined.

Strength of Knowledge, Precarity of Conditions

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-34
Author(s):  
Joëlle Le Marec
Keyword(s):  
Double Series ◽  
The Other ◽  
The One ◽  
Cover Up ◽  
The Way

Constantly bearing in mind the connection between knowledge and precarity has numerous consequences, in particular on the sociabilities of knowledge that are structured on the basis of a constant awareness of a double series of divergences that it is impossible to “deal with” theoretically: on the one hand, the divergences between the dramatically different conditions in which some people and others are enquiring, writing, studying, and on the other the gaps between different epistemologies and different kind of knowledge.The proposition of the collective, which is at once theoretical and political, consists precisely in not making any claims to cover up these divergences, in above all not rushing into recreating zones of invisibility or wide perspectives, but instead in trying to find a way to reclaim, to reappropriate other ways of exercising our responsibilities in a context of a necessary and very profound transformation of the way in which we imagine a more liveable world, which would be less violent for so many of us, more egalitarian, more just, more open.

Rileggendo il terzo corso di linguistica generale di Ferdinand de Saussure (1910–1911)

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 289-295
Author(s):  
Tullio De Mauro
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
The One ◽  
Cover Up ◽  
Academic Year

Summary The last of the three series of lectures on general linguistics which Saussure gave in Geneva during the academic year 1910–1911 provided the editors large portions of the text of the Cours de linguistique générale. However, the editors completely modified the order of these parts in relation to the plan that Saussure had mapped out and followed inhis lectures. These changes obscured the relationships between the parts and certain fundamental ideas of his thinking. In particular, they eclipsed the role which played, for Saussure, ‘the laws which universally are at play in language’ and search he conducted along those lines. These laws also imposed important limits on the arbitrariness of the sign. In the third course, Saussure shows more than one of those limits: the necessarily systematic nature of language; the effects of phonetic change; the delimiting temporality of any language. The spacial diversity of languages finds its origin in the temporal diversification under the influence de ‘la masse parlante’. It is due to this variability of any system that, according to Saussure, we find opposition between universal laws, on the one hand, and the written languages which cover up the constant variations encountered in spoken language. As a careful philologist, Saussure could not fail to pay attention to the written languages. Still, they become, in as much as they interfere with spoken language, an element of variation.

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