The article presents the results of a doctoral dissertation defended at the Universidad de Salamanca, based on Foucault's final decade of writings. If Foucault's goal in writing The History of Sexuality was to fashion a genealogy of ethics, my goal in analyzing this book, along with his other writings, is to demonstrate his last contribution to the history of medicine. He moves from a conceptio...

department of islamic philosophy and wisdom, zanjan university bringing up the ancients’ views and asking about their ultimate condition in mullā ṣadrā’s thinking and that of his disciples has had a significant impact on the formation and development of the motion theory. mentioning the names and bringing up the views of the ancient greek philosophers, as evidences for truthfulness in the disco...

The term Logos (Λογος) was widely used in the Greco-Roman culture and in Judaism. It has many meanings such as word, speech, statement, discourse, refutation, ratio, account, explanation, reason. But the meanings which have philosophical and religious implications are basically two: as an inward thought or reason, an intuitive conception, and as an outward expression of thought in speech. In an...

1. The modern Western idea of ‘the natural world’ 2. Other cosmological patterns 3. The Biblical view of the world 4. Ancient Greek science and philosophy 4.1. Organism and ‘Mechanism’ 4.2. Beings and Being 4.3. Cyclical Cosmology 4.4 Attitudes towards the Universe 5. The mediaeval world-view 6. The impact of the 'mechanistic' universe of Newtonian science 6.1. Reductionism 6.2. Direct Implicat...

Interest in the nature of conceptual knowledge extends back at least to the ancient Greek philosophers. In recent years, there has been a wide range of different approaches to understanding the nature of conceptual knowledge, its development, and its neural basis. In most other work, however, these issues are not all treated together. Instead, workers in philosophy, adult experimental psycholog...

[In Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Inter-college Press, 2005] Analogy and Motion in Theta 6 Charlotte Witt University of New Hampshire In Metaphysics Theta 6 Aristotle introduces the ontological distinction between energeia and dunamis by means of the following examples: it is as (a) what is building to what is capable of building and (b) the waking to the sleeping, and (c) what is seeing ...

The worn-out phrase, “Already the ancient Greeks...,” involves attitudes and views that make an Assyriologist stir uneasily. Its basic message is that Western culture was born in ancient Greece. The little word “already” betrays, on the one hand, admiration of the achievements of the Greeks, and on the other hand disparagement of previous cultures, as if nothing worth mentioning had been accomp...