Critias (460—403 B.C.E.) Critias, son of Callaeschrus, an Athenian philosopher, retore, poet, storico, and political leader, was best known for his leading role in the pro-Spartan government of the Thirty (404-403 BC). But Critias also produced a broad range of works and was a noted poet and teacher in his own time. The fragments of three tragedies and a satyr play, a collection of elegies,

Natural Theology Natural theology is a program of inquiry into the existence and attributes of God without referring or appealing to any divine revelation. In natural theology, one asks what the word “God” means, whether and how names can be applied to God, se Dio esiste, whether God knows the future free choices of creatures, e così via. The aim is to answer those questions

Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1647-1720) Un illustre classicista durante il regno del re francese Luigi XIV, Madame Dacier divenne famosa per la sua traduzione di testi greci e latini in francese. La sua traduzione dell'Iliade di Omero (1699) e Odissea (1708) rimane un monumento della prosa francese neoclassica. Nel difendere Omero durante un nuovo capitolo della disputa letteraria tra antichi e moderni, Dacier ha sviluppato

David Hume: Imagination David Hume (1711–1776) approaches questions in epistemology, metafisica, ethics and aesthetics via questions about our minds. Per esempio, before addressing the epistemological question of whether we have any justification for our beliefs about unobserved states of affairs, Hume asks which of our cognitive faculties is responsible for these beliefs. Before addressing the metaphysical question, What is causal necessity (or necessary connexion)? , Lui

Neo-Platonism Neo-platonism (or Neoplatonism) is a modern term used to designate the period of Platonic philosophy beginning with the work of Plotinus and ending with the closing of the Platonic Academy by the Emperor Justinian in 529 C.E. This brand of Platonism, which is often described as ‘mystical’ or religious in nature, developed outside the mainstream of Academic Platonism. The origins of Neoplatonism can be

Sengzhao (Seng-Chao c. 378—413 C.E.) Sengzhao (Seng-Chao) was a Buddhist monk who lived during China’s “Period of Disunity” between the stability of the Han and Tang dynasties. His Zhaolun (Treatises of [Seng]zhao) is perhaps the most significant text for the study of early Mādhyamika (“middle-ist”) or Sanlun (“Three-Treatise”) Buddhism in China. His work may be the only extensive compilation of early Chinese Mādhyamika treatises available,