For the senseless inira some manuscripts have inire or in arva, and the latter stands in the text of Baehrens . The attempts at emendation may be divided into two groups, those altering only inira and those tampering with ibat as well. I pass over the latter group, as Robinson Ellis, in his commentary, p. 125, has defended ibat sufficiently by reference to the frequent ñει in Babrius, Avianus’ model. The former group is represented by Withof and Robinson Ellis himself (...) ; and the editors of the Loeb text of the Minor Latin Poets, in 1934, had the verse printed with this in ora. Nobody seems to have seen that the verse-maker had to express the idea of the panther's pride. Therefore I propose ibat in (astra, a metaphorical phrase for the animal's conceit. For this metaphor cf. Horace's famous feriam sidera, for ibat Virg. Aen. 9. 641 sic itur ad astra, for in astra at the same place of the pentameter after a verb of motion Prop. 3. 18, 34 cessit in astra; Ov. Fast. 2. 478 and 3. 186 venit in astra. Avianus himself has this in astra before the last word of the pentameter in two more passages, 15. 8,19. 6. (shrink)

This book is a collection of secondary essays on America's most important philosophic thinkers—statesmen, judges, writers, educators, and activists—from the colonial period to the present. Each essay is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of a noted American on the fundamental meaning of the American regime.

The volume presents essays on the philosophical explanation of the relationship between body and soul in antiquity from the Presocratics to Galen. The title of the volume alludes to a phrase found in Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus, referring to aspects of living behaviour involving both body and soul, and is a commonplace in ancient philosophy, dealt with in very different ways by different authors.

The epithet χαλκοκραυνον has perturbed many, though the most recent English editors have printed it without comment. The new Liddell and Scott betrays uneasiness in its ‘epithet of the sea, perhaps false reading for χαλκαμρυγος, gleaming like copper or bronze’. Overseas scholars flatly reject it. Wilamowitz poured scorn on it in his Interpretationen and commented in his larger edition neque intelligitur et frustra temptatum est. Weir Smyth obelizes it. Bothe, Hermann, Weil, and others offered emendations. In Bursians Jahresberichte, ccxxxiv, p. (...) 104 W. Morel observed Von Erz und Blitz befreit uns Bruhns χλιαρκρουνον. This is emancipation indeed. (shrink)

De drie korte verhandelingen over de positie van hooggeplaatsten moeten gezien worden als een schakel in de lange keten van de literair-filosofische traditie van de Vorstenspiegels, die met name in de Italiaanse Renaissance zeer geliefd waren. Pascal volt echter deze voorbeelden maar gedeeltelijk, omdat hij een nieuwe macht introduceert, waaraan ook de groten der aarde onderworpen zijn, nl. de macht van het geloof. Zijn bespiegelingen over macht, morele plicht en verantwoordelijkheid zijn nog steeds actueel.

Les Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg 52 contains an Introduction and 9 new research articles in French & English on Friedrich Schiller's philosophy in relation to German Idealism. All fully available online on Open-Edition and as free e-book. -/- Edited and introduced by Henny Blomme, Laure Cahen-Maurel, & David W. Wood. With contributions by Frederick C. Beiser, María del Rosario Acosta López, Cody Staton, Jeremy D. Hovda, Laure Cahen-Maurel, Quentin Landenne, Katia Hay, Louis Carré, and Charlotte Morel. -/- SOMMAIRE / (...) CONTENTS -/- Introduction: Friedrich Schiller, a German Idealist? (Henny Blomme, Laure Cahen-Maurel & David W. Wood) -/- 1. Frederick C. Beiser. Schiller’s Humanism -/- 2. María del Rosario Acosta López. Une dimension esthétique de la critique : la temporalité du beau dans les lettres de Schiller Sur l’éducation esthétique -/- 3. Cody Staton. In Search of Play: Schiller’s Drive Theory as a Turn Away from Kant -/- 4. Jeremy D. Hovda. Bildung between Kant and Schiller -/- 5. Laure Cahen-Maurel. Fichte avec Schiller : La querelle des Heures à la lumière de Grâce et Dignité -/- 6. Quentin Landenne. La Bildung chez Schiller et Fichte, entre esthétique et politique -/- 7. Katia Hay. On the Tragic-Sublime and Tragic Freedom: Thinking with Schiller and Schelling -/- 8. Louis Carré. Vicissitudes de l’État organique : Kant, Hegel, Schiller -/- 9. Charlotte Morel. Conjoindre idéalisme et réalisme après Hegel : Les lectures de Schiller par Lotze et Lange -/- Résumés / Abstracts. (shrink)

hoc est, Capitolium’. This sentence comes in a passage based on a portion of the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth , but is not itself to be found in Geoffrey. Since Luard was unable to find the words attributed to him ‘in Lucan’, he concluded that the chronicler who was responsible for their inclusion had made a mistake. He offers no suggestions about the origins of the quotation. In a posthumous work of G. Gundermann's edited by G. Goetz, (...) Trogtis und Gellius bei Radulfus de Diceto, we find the quotation described as ‘einen angeblichen Lucanvers'. W. Morel learned of its existence from this reference and printed it as fr. 12 of Lucan. (shrink)

Le discours de Plotin sur la phusis ne relève pas à proprement parler de la « science » de la nature. Il s’efforce cependant de caractériser la nature elle-même et son mode de production spécifique dans le Traité 30 -De la nature, de la contemplation et de l’Un. Ce traité recourt, concernant la nature, à une argumentation d’un type spécifique – en l’occurrence, une argumentation négative. On analyse ici la manière dont Plotin définit la production naturelle par un double contraste (...) : en l’opposant à la production technique et à l’action. Il montre ainsi qu’il y a un discours spécifique sur la nature, mais aussi que la méthode la plus appropriée consiste à dire ce qu’elle n’est pas.Comment parler de la nature? Plotinus’ analysis of phusis doesn’t belong, properly speaking, to « science » of Nature. Nevertheless Plotinus tries to characterize Nature itself in a specific way, that is through a negative argumentation. According to Treatise 30 - On Nature and Contemplation and the One, Nature must be defined in contrast with two kinds of activities : technical production and action. It appears, consequently, that there is a specific discourse about Nature, but also that the most appropriate method consists in telling what Nature is not. (shrink)

La conception épicurienne du temps comporte trois difficultés principales : il y a un temps physique objectif, bien que le temps semble dépendre en lui-même de nos représentations ; le temps peut être perçu par la raison, mais, selon certains textes, il n'est perçu que par la sensation ; Epicure, enfin, se refuse à lui attribuer une unité réelle. Ces difficultés trouvent en partie leur solution à la lumière de la théorie épicurienne du langage, ainsi que dans le statut accidentel (...) et secondaire du temps par rapport aux événements, internes et externes. The Epicurean conception of time leads to three major difficulties : there is indeed a physical objective time, though time seems to depend in itself of our representations ; time may be perceived by reason, but, according to a few texts, it is only perceived but by sensation ; finally, Epicure refuses to grant it some real unity. The latter difficulties find in part their solution in the light of the Epicurean theory of language as well as in the accidental and secondary status of time as related to events be them internal or external. (shrink)

Long undervalued in France, philosophical anthropology has played an essential role in Germany, helping to address some of the most important issues straddling philosophy and the social sciences: humanity's place in nature and in history; the individual and others; and relations between human groups.

RésuméPour marquer le vingtième anniversaire de la mort du philosophe Ferdinand Gonseth, le fondateur et l'animateur de Dialectica, cet article lui est consacré. Les autres – le premier biologiste et le second thélogien, membres du Comité directeur – abordent brièvement quelquesuns des thèmes les plus marquants de la philosophie gonséthienne. Il est ici question, pour l'essentiel, de l'Idonéisme et de certaines de ses implications, de l'option d'ouverture relative à la recherche scientifique: la procédure des quatre phases de la démarche expérimentale, (...) les quatre principes caractérisant la connaissance dialectique. (shrink)

Une des principales difficultés posées par la conception démocritéenne de la connaissance est de savoir si ses énoncés aporétiques l'emportent sur ses énoncés positifs et si l'on peut parler de scepticisme à son propos. En présentant ces propositions en séries antithétiques, on constate que la dimension aporétique de la pensée de Démocrite est bien réelle mais qu'elle s'exprime moins par telle ou telle formule que par les rapports entre ses énoncés constitutifs. One of the main difficulties surging from the Democritean (...) conception of knowledge is to know whether his aporetic statements go beyond his positive statements and whether one may define him as sceptical. Showing such statements in the form of antithetical series, one suddenly realizes that Democritus' thought is « sceptical » indeed but is less expressed through any such formula rather than through relationships between its inherent elements of enunciation. (shrink)

A complete translation of Aristotle's classic that is both faithful and readable, along with an introduction that provides the modern reader with a means of understanding this seminal work and its impact on our culture. In this volume, Joe Sachs (translator of Aristotle's _Physics, Metaphysics,_ and the _Nicomachean Ethics _)also supplements his excellent translation with well-chosen notes and glossary of important terms. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a (...) glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Aristotle’s immediate audience. (shrink)