Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical

Am Anfang der Registratur von Bedeutungen steht die Witterung der Tiere. Die erste Kunstform dieser Witterung ist die Mantik. In den informellen Registraturen des modernen Menschen wie Vermuten, Ahnen, ein Gespur fur etwas haben stecken diese mantischen Ursprunge noch heute in uns. Dieses Gespur beredt werden zu lassen, ist Aufgabe einer Metaphysik, die sich als Metaphysik von unten versteht.

Insbesondere die Tragfahigkeit des transzendentalen Idealismus fur Kants Metaphysik der Natur sowie die Schlussigkeit seiner Moralphilosophie stehen in den Beitragen des Bandes erneut auf dem Prufstand. Zentrale Konzepte von Kants Transzendental- und Moralphilosophie, wie Substanz, Zeit, Freiheit und der kategorische Imperativ, werdenvor dem Hintergrund der Frage behandelt, wo Kant im Spannungsfeld zwischen traditionellem und modernem Wissenschaftsverstandnis zu verorten ist. Bedeutende Vertreter der Kantforschung (u.a. H. E. Allison, P. Guyer, D. Schonecker, M.Caimi, H. Schmitz) liefern...

This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics. The book uses as a point of departure Francisco Suarez s "Metaphysical Disputations" published in 1597. Minimalist metaphysics in empiricist/pragmatist clothing have today become mainstream in analytic philosophy. Independently of this development, the progress of scholarship in ancient and medieval philosophy makes clear that traditional forms of metaphysics have affinities with some of the streams in contemporary analytic metaphysics. The book brings together leading...

In this book, Eric Havelock presents a challenging account of the development of the idea of justice in early Greece, and particularly of the way justice changed as Greek oral tradition gradually gave way to the written word in a literate society.

He begins by examining the educational functions of poets in preliterate Greece, showing how they conserved and transmitted the traditions of society, a thesis adumbrated in his earlier book Preface to Plato. Homer, he demonstrates, has much to say about justice, but since that idea is nowhere in the epics directly stated or...

Richard M. Gummere, writing with characteristic warmth and humor, explores the attitudes toward the classics of seven prominent colonial Americans--Hugh Jones, Robert Calef, Michael Wigglesworth, Samuel Davies, Henry Melhior Muhlenberg, Benjamin Rush, and Thomas Paine.

A companion volume to the author's "The American Colonial Mind and the Classical Tradition," this book provides separate, absorbing biographies of these "seven wise men." Each of them was essentially pragmatic and judged the value of the classics not only on the basis of their intrinsic worth but also for their...