Title of Document: HOW THINGS FALL APART: PLEONEXIA, PARASITIC GREED, AND DECLINE IN GREEK THOUGHT FROM THUCYDIDES TO POLYBIUS William D. Burghart, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Professor Arthur M. Eckstein, Department of History This dissertation examines how Greek authors from the fifth to the second century BCE employed the concept of pleonexia to explain why cities lost power on t...

the concept of logos is seen figuratively before christianity in ancient greek philosophy and judaism (old testament and some works of filon of alexandria). in ancient greek philosophy, logos is counted as the first principle, at least up to the middle platonism period, and more importantly, until the platonism period; that is to say, as it will be pointed out, logos was the first principle wit...

Introduction In an entry in Nietzsche’s notebooks from the eighties, the entire spiritual movement of German philosophy is described as guided by nostalgia, by Heimweh. It is a nostalgia for “the best”, Nietzsche writes, which rejects the present in favor of the past. Ultimately, it is a will to recover Greek philosophy in general, and in particular the philosophy of the presocratics, that “bes...

This article describes about the original dimensions of al-Farabi's Islamic political philosophy by comparing it with Plato's philosophy. The originality philosophical thought in Islam was questioned critically orientalists. Orientalists had claimed that is simply a diversion from Greek However, an elaboration classical thought. In hands Muslim philosophers, reached perfection. So cannot be sai...

intellect is a fundamental topic of concern in the peripatetic philosophy. a comparison of al-farabi’s approach to ‘intellect’ (an iranian muslim philosopher with an oriental background) with that of alexander of aphrodisias’ (a greek philosopher with an occidental background) may reveal the contrasting features of aristotelian peripatetic philosophy and the islamic philosophy. basing itself on...

arsacid monarchy as the third iranian dynasty played an important role in the ancient era for five centuries. however, due to the inadequacy of written documents from that era, coins are considered precious sources for us to identify the political, historical, cultural, artistic, and religious views and ideas of that time, i.e. arsacid kings. concerning the similarities between the employed sym...