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Philosophers on Stage: From Aristophanes’ Socrates to Timon of Phlius’ Parody to Construct a New Philosophy
Abstract. This article aims to illustrate some intersections between Greek philosophical satire and ancient Greek philosophy by discussing the Pyrrhonian satire of Timon of Phlius against the philosophy of Socrates and his followers. Timonian mocker…
ALGUMAS NOTAS SOBRE O CONCEITO DE METEMPSICOSE: VARIAÇÕES HISTÓRICAS E SUA DIMENSÃO MORFOLÓGICA
Neste artigo exploramos o conceito de metempsicose, o qual perpassa a história humana se fazendo presente em diversas tradições religiosas e filosóficas. A metempsicose, em termos gerais, refere-se à transmigração da alma para outro corpo após a mor…
ΝΟΥΣ, ΝΟΗΣΙΣ, ΝΟΕΙΝ and derivatives, in Plato's Philosophy
he article shows that several studies on the meaning of νοῦς, νόησις, νοεῖν, and derivatives in pre-Platonic literature, especially in Homer, but also in some pre-Socratic thinkers, have concluded that these terms are never used in strictly abstract…
Nómos and Díke in Plato's Laws
In the Laws, Plato revised the political project of the Republic, dependent on the figure of the philosopher-king. Having abandoned, in old age, the belief in individual virtue, he based his final political proposal on the legal norm, conceived as a…
The philosophy of education of Socrates and Plato: Epistemological foundations methods and values for contemporary education
Ancient Greek educational philosophy, particularly the thought of Socrates and Plato, laid the foundations of the Western educational tradition and continues to exert a profound influence on contemporary educational thinking. This article provides a…
Revisiting the “longer way” and the “shorter way” in Plato’s Republic
At some moments of the Republic, character Socrates refers to two “ways” to reach some important objectives explained in the dialogue, a shorter one and a longer one. The present article explains what these two paths are, by presenting i) the previo…
Plato’s Conception of Pleonexia as Structural Excess
This paper reconstructs Plato’s conception of pleonexia as a flaw. Drawing on material from the Laws, Timaeus, Symposium, and Republic, it argues that Plato understands pleonexia as an excess that disrupts proportion and undermines natural order—whe…
Origens do ceticismo da Nova Academia: Uma herança socrática
Este artigo analisa as origens do ceticismo da Nova Academia, propondo que ele deve ser entendido não como uma ruptura com a tradição platônica, mas como uma continuidade crítica da atitude investigativa inaugurada por Sócrates e desenvolvida nos di…
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