Allegory and Ethics in Beethoven’s Fidelio

Allegory and Ascent in Neoplatonism

In Late Antiquity a series of ideas emerges that adds a kind of buoyancy to allegorism. Readers' impulses toward other regions of knowledge begin to flow more consistently upward, drawn by various metaphysical currents that guide and support them. A whole manner of Platonist-inspired architectures structure the cosmos in the early centuries of the Common Era, among thinkers as diverse as the we...

Allegory: Structure, Interpretation and Polysemy

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...

Allegory and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century

In a reading of William Blake's frontispiece to “There is no Natural Religion” that draws largely on the history of the allegorical mode, I offer a narrative that explores the creative ways in which Blake illuminated his ideas about the value of Enlightenment thought.

The Janeway Medal and its allegory.

ترجمه و نقد 5 فصل اول کتاب ‏‎quandaries and virtues against reductivism in ethics by: edmund l. pincoffs‎‏

شاید مهم ترین علت انتخاب این کتاب ، بکر بودن موضوع آن در کشور و خالی بودن آن در مباحث و دیالوگ های فلسفه اخلاق در کشور بوده است . یعنی از یک سو بحث اخلاق فضیلت محوردر غرب که از نیمه قرن بیستم تاکنون یکی از مطرح ترین نحله های مطرح در اخلاق هنجاری در غرب است ، از ضرورت معرفی به جوامع فلسفی ایران برخوردار است ، و از دیگر سو اهمیت نویسنده این کتاب و اثرگذاری این کتاب در مجامع علمی - دانشگاهی مغرب ز...