After centuries of obscurity, the study of the virtues is now one of the most prominent methodologies in ethics. Proponents of this so-called ‘aretaic turn’ differ substantially in the details of their respective proposals, but they tend to see a renewed focus on ethical virtues as a fresh source of insight into problems which have deadlocked more familiar approaches, such as Kantianism or util...

Plato's ethics lie at the centre of his philosophy. His approach to 'how best to live' must deal with questions of what there is in the world where we live and how we talk, think or know about it. So to grasp his moral theory we need to understand how it is integrated with the enterprise as a whole. Moreover, since he was a dialectician par excellence we must discover what is his method of doin...

in the context of comparative and intercultural philosophy the approach and engagement of one philosopher with another, is a very basic issue. with regard to this, i want to narrate farabi’s special engagement with the meno and gorgias dialogues of plato. his engagement can be named hermeneutic dialectical reading-here hermeneutic means the relation of farabi with the meno and gorgias texts and...

European enquiry into the nature and meaning of the world started in ancient Greece. By the fourth century BC, a substantial body of philosophy emanated from several schools: from Thales and his followers in the city of Miletos in Ionia in Asia Minor, from the Pythagorean school in Croton (Crotone) in Calabria, and from the Eleatic School in Sicily. The Sophist philosophy of Protagoras, Hippias...

There are numerous technological advances which are readily available for us in the university classroom. While the use of computers, on-line data bases, video networking, etc. will serve to greatly enhance the understanding and dissemination of information to the students, the instructor must not neglect a fundamental necessity for any class the delivery system. This research focused on two of...

This paper presents a proof-theoretical approach to the question "What is a logical constant?" This approach starts with the assumption that logic is the science of formal deductions, and that basic formal deductions are structural deductions, i.e. deductions independent of any constant of the language to which the premises and conclusions belong. Logical constants, on which the remaining forma...

To successfully pursue a goal in the face of temptation, an individual must first identify that she faces a self-control conflict. Only then will the individual exercise self-control to promote goal pursuit over indulging in temptation. We propose a new model that distinguishes between the problems of conflict identification and those of conflict resolution. We then review research on the facto...