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Logic of Courage and Wisdom in Plato’s Protagoras 349e–351b Dale Jacquette, Universität Bern Almost everything Socrates says is wiry argument; that is the beauty of his talk for a philosopher. So we can’t dodge the question whether or not the wires are joined together by valid inferences … Gregory
On Knowledge as a Condition for Courage in Plato’s Protagoras Erik Christensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Der Dialog Protagoras war in erheblichem Maße Gegenstand der Kontroverse in der Diskussion der Frage der Einheit der Tugenden. Mehrere Gelehrte haben die Argumente des
The Cyclical Argument and Principles of Change in Plato’s Phaedo 1 Byeong-Uk Yi, University of Toronto Dieser Beitrag liefert eine Analyse des zyklischen Arguments für die Unsterblichkeit der Seele in Platons Phaidon. Bei der Durchführung wird die zentrale Rolle von zwei Prinzipien der Veränderung
Holger A. Leuz: On the Foundations of Greek Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Dale Jacquette: Logic of Courage and Wisdom in Plato’s Protagoras 349e–351b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Erik Christensen: On Knowledge as a Condition for Courage in
of his time to task for not probing deeper into the foundations of their work (Republic , 510c2–e3, see section 3 below). Several modern authors have even suggested that Plato’s Unwritten Doctrine contained a theory of the foundations of mathematics, which would include the foundations of arithmetic
questions – particularly Q2 as separate from Q3, since that is what is most often doubted – raise deep and difficult philosophical issues, and issues which arise naturally out of basic features of Plato’s epistemological and metaphysical thought. I. The First Question The first question need not concern us
, I shall now briefly outline Plato’s and Plotinus’ accounts of the relation between physical beauty and the mental beauty that is supposed to be the origin of physical beauty. This shall provide us with one of the most important ways to avoid the redundancy problem regarding moral beauty and physical
think, nearly all one needs to say in a first introductory BE-course. Are there any Skeptical Problems looming on the way? I, for my part at least, just cannot detect any. But, I am sure: You all will know how the history of this debate – since Plato’s time – went on and is still going on. »We
think, nearly all one needs to say in a first introductory BE-course. Are there any Skeptical Problems looming on the way? I, for my part at least, just cannot detect any. But, I am sure: You all will know how the history of this debate – since Plato’s time – went on and is still going on. »We
York Cherniss, H. (1962): The Riddle of the Early Academy, New York 532 Literatur Chomsky, N. (1959): »Review of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior«, Language 35, 26–58 Cornford, F. M. (1937): Plato’s Cosmology, London Cresswell, M. (1985): Structured Meanings, Cambridge/Mass. Darwin, C. (1958): The