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“Friendship in Early Greek Ethics” examines the accounts of friendship (philia) in the early philosophical literature and argues that there is a coherent narrative of philosophical theorizing of friendship prior to Aristotle, one which... more
In one of his paradoxes Zeno of Elea had argued for the indivisibility of being. For being to be divisible, its parts should either be divisible themselves, or indivisible. If indivisible, they would have no extension, but how could parts... more
Most historians of science credit the traditional players (Aristotle, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton) for gifting us Moderns with a scientific outlook on nature and the cosmos. Few go back as far as the Presocratics (6th and 5th c. BCE),... more
Bien que les notions de φιλία et δίκη n’apparaissent pas conjointement dans les fragments présocratiques, elles relèvent de champs similaires, qu’il s’agisse de la nécessité cosmique ou d’une forme conditionnelle de nécessité. Mais,... more
The article highlights the process of understanding love- agape in Greek culture. By using the work of linguists, leading Western experts on the Greek language dwells on hypotheses etymology of the word «agape». As part of the subject... more
Back Cover with endorsements of the forthcoming collection on Atomism. 508pp. In press, publication date: 12 November 2020
Embryology was a subject that inspired great cross-disciplinary discussion in antiquity, and Plato’s Timaeus made an important contribution to this discussion, though Plato’s precise views have remained a matter of controversy, especially... more
L'objet de la correspondance fictive, intégrée à la Collection hippocratique, au sujet du cas de Démocrite, n'est pas réductible à l'ambiguïté du rire du philosophe qui paraît d'abord relever de la folie avant de s'avérer l'expression... more
An attempt to capture the most significant questions of a wide variety of major philosophers, and hence, the soul of philosophy.
Sokrates öncesi filozofların doğayı açıklama çabası varlık, oluş, değişim sorunları etrafında döner. Bu sorunlara önerilen çözümlerde Sokrates öncesi filozofların gözettiği temel izlek ise doğanın birlikteliğini, biraradalığını diğer bir... more
Democritus’ theory of vision combines the notions of images (eidola) streaming from objects and air imprints, which gives him the resources to account for the perception of the relative size and distance of objects, not just their... more
Demokritos (Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos), doğum ve ölüm yılına dair birçok spekülasyon bulunuyor olsa da yaklaşık olarak M.Ö. 460 ile MÖ 370 yılları arasında yaşamış ve hocası olarak bilinen Leukippos (Λεύκιππος) ile atom öğretisini... more
Marx Notizbücher zur epikureischen, stoischen und skeptischen Philosophie, einschließlich seiner Dissertation: "Unterschied zwischen demokritischer und epikurischer Naturphilosophie", nebst einem Anhang/ Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean,... more
Como uma espécie de sombra ou como os ecos de uma voz distante, não é difícil, para um estudioso do pensamento atomista, reconhecer a presença de Demócrito nas entrelinhas de alguns diálogos platônicos, o que se dá de modo subliminar pela... more
It is a commonplace among scholars that the early Pythagoreans posited an immortal soul. The earliest source to associate immortality of the soul to the Pythagoreans unequivocally, Dicaearchus of Messana, stipulates that they held that... more
En e presente libro se han tomado tres pensadores –Demócrito de Abdera, Epicuro de Samos y Tito Lucrecio Caro – y de lo que queda de sus obras se han seleccionado fragmentos significativos, sobre los que se han aplicado distintos tipos de... more
Salomo Luria as a historian of science
Leukippos (MÖ V. yüzyıl): Sokrates öncesi felsefe ekollerinden Atomcu Felsefe’nin kurucu figürü olan Leukippos’un hayatı hakkında bilinenler çok azdır. Gerçekten yaşayıp yaşamadığı antik dünyada bile tartışma konusu olmuştur. Diogenes... more
Il n'y a pas de préoccupation qui soit plus universelle et intemporelle que celle portant sur le bonheur. Chacun d'entre nous s'accorde en effet pour dire que le bonheur est un bien, et par conséquent, se met à sa poursuite tout en... more
for discussion purposes
Lo studio esamina l'influenza esercitata dalla scoperta dell'incommensurabilità da parte dei tardo pitagorici sull'intera filosofia greca dalla dottrina delle idee di Platone alla logica di Aristotele.
In this paper, I defend the claim that for Aristotle the phrase “art imitates nature” does not express a novel belief about teleology as often assumed, but a belief common to Aristotle and his predecessors about how artistic methods of... more
In 1889, the German philologist Friedrich Blass isolated a section of Chapter 20 from Iamblichus’ Exhortation to Philosophy (mid- or late 3rd Century CE) as an extract from a lost sophistic or philosophical treatise from the late 5th... more
Summary. Section (1) explains why the Derveni papyrus has often been misunderstood: among the main reasons are the wrong label «Orphic» and the confusion of two types of pantheism in Greek thought: the ethico- religious and the... more
In this paper a new reconstruction of the text and interpretation of the fragment 580 Luria / B 30 DK is proposed. The author refutes the widespread opinion going back to Reinhardt (1912), according to which the fragment speaks of... more
Expanded version of paper delivered at the International conference "Heraklit von Ephesos und seine Zeit" (7-12 Oktober 2013, Selcuk Municipality, Turkey), in: „Heraklit im Kontext” hrsg. von Enrica Fantino, Ulrike Muss, Charlotte... more
La tesi tenta di studiare l'opera teofrastea del De sensibus, importante testimonianza di scritto di ricerca all'interno del Peripato. Nei tre capitoli della tesi ho affrontato i problemi della tradizione manoscritta del testo, ho... more
NOT FOR CITATION: early proofs of my commentary. For the final version see the Brill's New Jacoby online: http://brillonline.nl/subscriber/uid=2016/entry?entry=bnj_a263#BNJ
The proposed book is dedicated to the theme of love, which was first and completely sung by the ancient Greeks and Romans in different genres of prose. The book considers not only conjugal, sexual love, but also friendship and love... more
It seems to be crystal clear that Spinoza cannot be regarded an atomist given the fact that the Dutch philosopher seems to deny, in his early as well as in his later work, the existence of atoms and vacuum. This paper argues, however,... more
Βασιλείου-Δαμβέργης, Αλέξανδρος-Νεκτάριος, Ιω. «Η πολιτική φιλοσοφία του Δημοκρίτου και η ελληνική πόλις-κράτος: συγκριτική θεώρηση και επίκαιρες προεκτάσεις για την Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη του 21ου αιώνα», Πρακτικά 3ου Πανελληνίου... more
The present collection of eight essays, earlier versions of which have appeared separately – several of them now expanded and revised in this edition – offers a sustained analysis of conceptual connections between (i) the metaphysics and... more
The following study is considering Democritus' suicide in De rerum natura. In his list of great dead men (III, 1024-1052), Lucretius is mentioning Democritus' name just before the one of Epicurus. He is therefore paying a tribute to the... more
Recorrido crítico por la figura y la obra de Hecateo de Abdera, escritor de comienzos de la época helenística (entre finales del s. IV y principios del s. III a.C.). Presentado como discípulo de Pirrón (Diógenes Laercio IX 69), fue autor... more
Il presente saggio ha come oggetto l’intepretazione relativa alla figura e all’insegnamento del filosofo e medico presocatico Alcmeone di Crotone offerta da Luigia Achillea Stella negli anni Trenta del secolo scorso. Attraverso un’acuta... more
What did the early Greek philosophers think about animals and their lives? How did they view plants? And, ultimately, what type of relationship did they envisage between all sorts of living beings? On these topics there is evidence of a... more
This dissertation proposes a reconstitution of the elementary aspects and of the processes of the atomist chemistry of Leucippus and Democritus from the testimony of Aristotle in his treatise On generation and corruption (GC), which... more
One striking oddity about Democritus and Epicurus is that, even though Epicurus' theory of perception is largely the same as that of Democritus, Democritus and his followers draw skeptical conclusions from this theory of perception,... more
ARISTÓTELES EL HOMBRE DE GENIO Y LA MELANCOLÍA. PROBLEMA XXX, I. Publicado por Quaderns Crema, S. A. Barcelona, abril de 1996. SOBRE LA RISA DE DEMÓCRITO (Versión griego-francés en: É. Litreé Oeuvres Compléts D’Hippocrate. Vol.9, Paris... more
Corpuscularianism (from the Latin corpusculum meaning 'little body') refers to a set of theories that explain natural transformations as the result of the interaction of particles (minima naturalia, partes exiles, partes parvae,... more
Este ensayo compara el potencial explicativo de las principales filosofías materialistas y dualistas de la Antigua Grecia a la luz de las explicaciones científicas contemporáneas. Explora el problema metafísica de la existencia,... more
L’on pourrait ainsi comprendre valablement l’argument onfrayien selon lequel il n’existe pas de transcendance, mais dans la visée démocritéenne d’un matérialisme non- réductionniste : il y aurait, selon les deux héritages des philosophes... more