Fear of Diversity: The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought

1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 426
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Figueira ◽  
Arlene W. Saxonhouse
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Thought

Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought

2002 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
Michael Ferejohn ◽  
R. J. Hankinson
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Thought

scholarly journals Kant’s Confrontation with Plato and the Greek World in the Inaugural Dissertation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Gualtiero Lorini
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
Greek Tradition ◽  
Greek World

The discussion concerning Kant’s knowledge of the Greek world has long been a subject of debate. Our contribution is intended to show that in the Dissertation of 1770 Kant is measured against some currents of Greek thought, and above all with Plato, on topics which will become very important in the articulated development of criticism in the 1770s. One aspect of our analysis deals with the texts that could have filtered Kant’s knowledge of ancient Greek tradition. We will then pore over some crucial features of the Dissertation, such as the distinction between sensible and intelligible knowledge and the ambiguous nature of the intellectualia, in order to assess how Kant’s understanding of certain issues of Greek classicism may have contributed to the outline of some still problematic theses in the text of 1770.

Psyche in Ancient Greek Thought

1988 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Frampton
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Thought

Space in Ancient Times

Space ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 11-51
Author(s):  
Barbara Sattler
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

This chapter tells the story of the way in which, in ancient Greek thought, space first came to be established as an independent and unified dimension. The story begins with prephilosophical as well as philosophical understandings of space, in which spatial notions are often not clearly distinguished from time and matter. This leads to difficulties accounting for motion and change. While Plato’s Timaeus conceives of time and space for the first time as two independent magnitudes, this chapter shows that they are assumed to be different to such a degree that it is unclear how they could be related to each in an account of motion and change. The task of distinguishing time and space in a way that they can, nevertheless, be intelligibly related, is finally accomplished in Aristotle’s Physics. There, time and space are both conceived as (distinct) continua, which can be combined.

Athens and Jerusalem

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Vincent P. Pecora
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
James Joyce ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Stephane Mallarme ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Meister Eckhart ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
Medieval Europe

Autochthony is fundamental to ancient Greek notions of belonging to the land. While the motif had a negligible presence in the literature of European Christendom, it returns with some force in modern productions by Stéphane Mallarmé, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce. Martin Heidegger too draws on pre-Socratic Greek thought on the theme of autochthony. But there is a parallel tradition of belonging to the land that begins in the Pentateuch. In Exodus, God speaks to Moses about a Promised Land. In medieval Europe, Meister Eckhart reads Exodus as providing a special, mystical understanding of God’s soul, one that intertwines promised land with the human soul’s creative capacities, and lays the foundation for theologically infused politics in the German tradition. In Alexander Baumgarten, Immanuel Kant, and J. G. Fichte, nationalism is linked to Eckhart. In the twentieth century, Heidegger phenomenologically reinscribes earth, divinities, and dwelling poetically.

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