Browsing Phronimon Volume 4 Number 1 (2003) by Title

Browsing Phronimon Volume 4 Number 1 (2003) by Title

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  • Hermeneutical paradoxes in the trial of Socrates 
    Ladikos, Anastasios; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    The logical role of the paradox is not to state a truth whose paradoxical nature lies in the difficulty we feel in maintaining it as true, but rather to state something that will cause fo feel as false something else we ...
  • Nietzsche on tragedy and Socrates 
    Evangeliou, Christos; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Socrates appears to have been the perpetual target of Nietzsche's manic critique. His accusation of Socrates as ultimately responsible for the untimely death of Greek tragedy acquires both comic aspects and tragic proportions, ...
  • Platonic temperance : the heart of a healthy constitution 
    Domanski, A.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Plato's notion of temperance, as elaborated in his dialogues the Republic and the Laws, is far removed from conventional modern thinking on the subject. Platonic temperance is as much a public as a private virtue. lts ...
  • Self-created or other-invoked? Foucault and Levinas on how to become ethical 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Foucault professes the possibility of resistance despite the human innate entrapment in power and knowledge. The ethical subject is the site where this resistance becomes possible, if and only this ethical subject is ...
  • The world in identity in Heraclitus 
    Maniatis, Y.N.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Heraclitus is not only the philosopher of the law of constant change but also the philosopher of identity. The fact that the cosmos is one and the same for itself and for all, means that it is in unity and identity with ...