Religion and Culture in Dialogue: East and West Perspectives by Janis Talivaldis Ozolinš

Apprehension and Argument: Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge: 3 (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind)

This ebook deals the 1st synoptic examine of the way the first parts in wisdom buildings have been analysed in antiquity from Plato to overdue historical commentaries. It argues that, within the Platonic-Aristotelian culture, the query of beginning issues was once taken care of from certain issues of view: as a query of ways we gather easy wisdom; and as a query of the premises we may perhaps instantly settle for within the line of argumentation.

Classical Christianity and the Political Order: Reflections on the Theologico-Political Problem (Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays)

In quantity of Ernest Fortin: accrued Essays, Fortin bargains with the connection among faith and civil society in a Christian context: that of an primarily nonpolitical yet certainly not completely otherwordly faith, lots of whose teachings have been considered essentially at odds with the tasks of citizenship.

Antisthenes of Athens: Texts, Translations, and Commentary

Antisthenes of Athens (c. 445-365 BCE) was once a well-known historical disciple of Socrates, senior to Plato through fifteen years and inspirational to Xenophon. he's suitable to 2 of the best turning issues in old highbrow historical past, from pre-Socraticism to Socraticism, and from classical Athens to the Hellenistic interval.

Diagoras of Melos: A Contribution to the History of Ancient Atheism (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde)

Diagoras of Melos (lyric poet, fifth c. B. C. ) has acquired distinctive consciousness for a while now simply because he was once considered as a thorough atheist and the writer of a prose paintings on atheism in antiquity. He used to be infamous for revealing and ridiculing the Eleusinian Mysteries and used to be condemned for impiety at Athens.