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Early Greek philosophy
\"The works of the early Greek philosophers are not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and the whole of ancient philosophy, but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This nine-volume edition presents all the major fragments from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Die Prinzipienlehre der Milesier
Die ältesten philosophischen Ideen Europas liegen im Dunkel – nicht nur, weil die Werke ihrer Vertreter verloren sind, sondern auch, weil die antike Überlieferung durch die besondere Interpretation dominiert ist, der diese frühesten Konzepte im 4. Jh. v. Chr. durch Aristoteles unterzogen wurden. Diese Interpretation und einen ihrer antiken Rezeptionszweige näher zu beleuchten, ist das Ziel des Buches von Maria Marcinkowska-Rosó?. Analysiert und ausführlich erläutert werden 120 Textzeugnisse zu den 'Prinzipienlehren' des Thales, Anaximander und Anaximenes bei Aristoteles (Physik, Über den Himmel, Über Werden und Vergehen, Über die Seele, Metaphysik) und seinen Kommentatoren vom 2. bis zum 14. Jh. (Alexander von Aphrodisias, Themistios, Syrianos, Johannes Philoponos, Simplikios, Asklepios von Tralleis, Michael Psellos, Georgios Pachymeres, Sophonias und – in den lateinischen Übersetzungen des Michael Scotus und Jakob Mantino – Averroes). Die durchgeführten Analysen ergeben ein oft überraschendes Bild der vielfältigen Umdeutungen der milesischen Ideen und deren immer weiter fortschreitender Assimilierung an den konzeptuellen Rahmen des Aristoteles und seiner antiken und mittelalterlichen Kommentatoren.
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Voicing Moral Concerns: Yes, But How? The Use of Socratic Dialogue Methodology
After a selective review of relevant literature about teaching business ethics, this paper builds on a summary of Fred Bird's thoughts about the voicing of moral concerns provided in his book about moral muteness (Bird in The muted conscience, 1996). Socratic dialogue methodology (in the tradition of L. Nelson and G. Heckmann) is then presented and the use of this methodology is examined, for business ethics teaching in general, and for addressing our paper topic in particular. Three short form Socratic dialogues about the paper topic are summarized for illustration, together with preparation and debriefing suggestions for a Socratic dialogue unit as part of a business ethics course. In conclusion, Socratic dialogue design is related to the experiential learning approach, and characterized by a few basic traits, which imply both risks and opportunities for business ethics teaching.
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TOWARDS A THEORY OF PART
Many philosophers have supposed that the two notions are broadly analogous and that what goes for one will tend to go for the other. They have often supposed the notion of part only has proper application to material things or the like and that its application to abstract objects such as sets or properties is somehow improper and not sanctioned by ordinary use. Here, Fine outlines a general framework for dealing with questions of part-whole. He attempts to provide a comprehensive and unified account of the different ways in which one object can be a part of another.
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Die Prinzipienlehre der Milesier
Begleitend zu den Editionsbänden der Reihe Traditio Praesocratica, in der Texte frühgriechischer Naturphilosophen in kritischer Ausgabe mit Übersetzung erscheinen, werden in der Reihe Studia Praesocratica Kommentare, Monographien und Sammelbände zur frühgriechischen Philosophie und ihrer Doxographie veröffentlicht.
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Turtles All the Way down: Regress, Priority and Fundamentality
I address an intuition commonly endorsed by metaphysicians, that there must be afundamental layer of reality, i.e., that chains of ontological dependence must terminate: there cannot be turtles all the way down. I discuss applications of this intuition with reference to Bradley's regress, composition, realism about the mental and the cosmological argument. I discuss some arguments for the intuition, but argue that they are unconvincing. I conclude by making some suggestions for how the intuition should be argued for, and discussing the ramifications of giving the justification I think best.
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Possible geographies: a passing encounter in a café
The rise of non-representational theory in human geography has prompted searching questions about how researchers might 'represent' what they encounter in their fieldwork. A central problem is that we reach an insurmountable impasse, an aporia, because we cannot share thoughts, meanings, feelings, etc., in a manner faithful to our experience of them or equally that certain spectacular or horrific events and encounters escape their retelling. We argue that this impossibility should not become a warrant for withdrawing from the world, and instead propose that close descriptions can still be offered of particular encounters, attending in the process to the situated, embodied sense-making work being (unavoidably) undertaken by the peoples involved that makes those encounters what they are. Such work may be threatened by scepticism, because it assumes the possibility of representation being at least partially successful, here and now, and relies on the 'just-thisness' of things. Scholars of social life can, scepticism contained, learn much from taking seriously how any encounter unfolds without transcendental or structural guarantee in the immediacy of the life-worlds where it is made and re-made.
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The Virtues of Thisness Presentism
Presentists believe that only present things exist. But opponents insist this view has unacceptable implications: if only present things exist, we can't express singular propositions about the past, since the obvious propositional constituents don't exist, nor can we account for temporal passage, or the openness of the future. According to such opponents, and in spite of the apparent 'common sense' status of the view, presentism should be rejected on the basis of these unacceptable implications. In this paper, I present and defend a version of presentism ('Thisness Presentism') that avoids the unacceptable implications. The basic strategy I employ is familiar—I postulate presently existing entities to serve as surrogates (or 'proxies') for non-present entities—but some of the details of my proposal are more novel, and their application to these problems is certainly novel. One overarching thesis of this paper is that Thisness Presentism is preferable to other versions of presentism since it solves important problems facing standard iterations of the view. And I assume that this is a good positive reason in favour of the underlying thisness ontology.
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