Presocratics
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Η διδακτική αυτή προσέγγιση αφορά στο σχεδιασμό και την υλοποίηση της διδασκαλίας στο πλαίσιο ενός μαθήματος φιλοσοφίας σχετικά με τις θεωρίες της γνώσης στη Β΄ Γενικού Λυκείου, με βάση το διδακτικό βιβλίο Αρχές Φιλοσοφίας στο... more
This article presents a strategy for introducing Presocratic thought to students in a manner that is both engaging and relevant. The first section addresses students' reactions to the claim that the Presocratics were the first... more
PHILOSOPHICAL MAXIMS ON BEING
Aristotle introduced in the history of the reception of Anaxagoras the term “homoiomerous.” This word refers to substances whose parts are similar to each other and to the whole. Although Aristotle’s explanations can be puzzling, the term... 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
Il principale obiettivo dei Milesi, lungi dall’essere un’insensata reductio ad unum di tutte le sostanze, è stato in effetti un primo tentativo d’interpretare razionalmente il mondo intorno a noi, spiegando cosa costringa i corpi celesti... more
Si bien la historia de la filosofía es también filosofía, no por ello puede pasar de largo sobre la necesidad de ser también una historia. Los textos que exponen lo que se considera como el conjunto de argumentos del pasado dentro del... more
The Philosophy of Parmenides as a system of idealistic monism (immaterialism). The Pythagorean background of Parmenides' metaphysics. The origin of the mistaken positivist interpretation of Parmenides. Plato's date of Parmenides' birth... more
In the National Undergraduate Classical Studies Honorary's biannual publication, Nuntius. Summer 2014 Issue.... more
were the two major founders of "new quantum theory" in the period 1925-1927. Their formulations were very different, and neither of them liked the other's formulation. Heisenberg, in a letter, called Schrödinger's formulation "repulsive,"... 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
This paper is about the history of a question in ancient Greek philosophy and medicine: what holds the parts of a whole together? The idea that there is a single cause responsible for cohesion is usually associated with the Stoics. They... more
In the analysis of Anaxagoras' physics in view of the relation between his teachings on multitude and heterogeneity, two central questions emerge: 1) How can the structure of the universe considered purely mereo-topologically help us... more
ANAXAGOREAN NOUS AND ΙTS ΑNALOGΙES ΙN ORPHΙC COSMOLOGY Ι. Ιntroduction. The Anaxagorean Thesis on Norrs. Anaxagoras argues that matter initially consisted of a mixture of inνisible materials, infinite in size and number. These materials... more
C. Cengiz Çevik, “Herakleitos’un Doğa Üzerine Kitabıyla İlgili Kaynaklar ve Yorumlar,” Felsefi Düşün 13 (2019): 121-133. ÖZ Presokratik filozoflar da kitaplar yazmıştır, ancak ne yazık ki bu kitapların hiçbiri günümüze tam olarak... more
Nous nous efforçons de présenter ce que, à partir d'éléments positivement donnés dans des textes présocratiques, nous pouvons considérer comme un problème ayant été soulevé et ayant donné lieu à une procédure intellectuelle nouvelle... more
m a g a z z i n o d i f i l o s o f i a quadrimestrale di informazione, bilancio ed esercizio della filosofia n° 39, anno XIII, 2021 (C13): s t r u m e n t i (peer review) PEM
Resumen: El presente artículo intenta acercarse al pensamiento de Heráclito a partir de la crítica que realiza el efesio a la tradición, principalmente literaria (Homero, Hesíodo, Arquíloco) y filosófica (Jenófanes y Pitágoras). Esto con... more
Da secoli siamo abituati a pensare alla nascita della filosofia solo con la sua prima comparsa sul terreno, in Grecia, nel vi secolo a.C. È verosimile, invece, che il suo albero abbia radici molto più antiche, da ritrovare nella Creta... more
El presente trabajo se titula Areté y el ideal práctico del conocimiento; partimos del hecho de que el pensar filosófico tuvo como fundamento inicial en el sentido de la areté en la cultura griega, trasfondo que nos servirá para... more
Dear readers, I teach a course in Ancient Philosophy--primarily Plato and Aristotle--and have a fairly sturdy set of notes compiled over many years. I'm more than happy to share these with other instructors and scholars.
A collection of teaching materials (in German)
Les chants d’exhortation des poètes grecs Tyrtée et Kallinos eurent une fonction rassembleuse dont l’efficacité inégalée s’explique ici pour la première fois grâce à une enquête philologique de leurs fragments rendus à la lettre des... more
Nell’arco di un cinquantennio, l’itinerario di ricerca di Néstor Cordero ha ruotato prevalentemente intorno al pensiero di Parmenide di Elea. Oltre ad alcuni libri capitali, Cordero ha dedicato all’Eleate numerose pubblicazioni, alcune... more
Thr reconstructor of the latest version of the Greek text (2011) divided its French translarion en regard into seven parts subdivided each according to its various themes. The other translations into modern languages followed suit giving... more
Die Vorsokratiker. Ein philosophisches Porträt, München (Beck) 1994
In German. Topics include: Meanings of physis (ch. 2), physis before Early Greek Philosophy (ch. 3), physis in Early Greek philosophy (ch. 4), peri physeôs as book title in philosophia? (ch. 5), physis and kosmos (ch. 6), Aristotle's... more
Empedocles-the-scientist got a minoritarian attention, and this paper was meant to do something in order to redress the situation. Two preliminary questions are addressed here at the beginning: (1) how folklore, speculation and 'science'... more
The late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room, approximately 18 m2 in area, connected with two even smaller ones, in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area, belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb) discovered in the... more
Scholars typically discount Nietzsche's value for contemporary studies of Greek antiquity and this is done from both the perspective of Classics as of Ancient Philosophy. At the same time, such denigrations have been challenged again... more
The paper explores the religious views of presocratic philosopher Democritus and proposes solutions and/or interpretations for the seemingly untractable riddles in his theory of the gods.
The Theogony of Epimenides of Crete and the origin of the Orphic-Pythagorean doctrine of reincarnation It is commonly believed that the epic Theogony of Epimenides of Crete derives from the corpus of pseudepigrapha under his name and... more
This is full text of the first part of my monograph "The logos of Heraclitus", published by Academic publishers "Nauka" in Saint-Petersburg in 2014, in English translation which contains all five chapters of the Introduction on... more