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It is impossible to better grasp the currents of ideas which agitated minds towards the middle of the second century than in the little treatise On the Unreasonable Contempt for Popular Opinions by Polystratus (1) who succeeded Hermarqus at the … Read More
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After the massive system of the Stoics, it is a relaxation to rest in the garden where Epicurus philosophizes in private with his friends, while Zeno attracts the public crowd to the Poecile portico. Between these two minds, nothing in … Read More
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We call Hellenistic age the period during which Greek culture became the common good of all Mediterranean countries; from the death of Alexander until the Roman conquest, we see it gradually assert itself, from Egypt and Syria to Rome and … Read More
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To the same Socrates, from whom the movement of ideas – the philosophy of the concept – came, history connects a group of contemporary schools called Socratic; they are all in decided hostility to this movement of ideas, although, moreover, … Read More
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Aristotle was born in 385 BC in Stagira, a city located on the northern coast of the Aegean, east of Chalkidiki. He could not be influenced by his father, who was a doctor, since he was very young when he … Read More
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Plato was born in Athens in 427 B.C., in an aristocratic family which included considerable figures in the city, including his mother’s cousin, Critias, who was one of the Thirty Tyrants. His youthful years passed amid the most serious political … Read More
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The century which preceded the death of Alexander (323) was the great century of Greek philosophy; it is at the same time above all the century of Athens: with Socrates and Plato, with Democritus and Aristotle, we reach a moment … Read More
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In the first period, the Hellenic period which ended with the death of Alexander (323 BC), philosophy developed in Greek countries and successively in various centers: this succession corresponds to political vicissitudes. It was born in the 6th century in … Read More
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We propose a novel paradigmatic approach to sentient reality as a whole, with specific application to Information-guided DNA dynamics, leading to a triadic genomic configuration , which accommodates besides the parental hereditar legacy, a transcendental originating highly complex guiding matrix … Read More
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Panteli highlights the psychological aspects of Collodi’s book appealing to Freudian psychoanalysis in literary theory and the use of a model of Freud’s definition of the human psyche. The Adventures of Pinocchio can also be approached through the prism of the philosophy of mind, of the essential questions in this field. In the book, within the limits of the heterotopic experience, several theoretical and ontological questions are explored through an examination of the psychological, emotional and spiritual requirements on the individuals in this space.
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