Classical Philosophy and Thought

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• NURBAY IRMAK

A review of the history of ancient medicine reveals that most of the knowledge is concentrated in the studies of a few scientists. The best-known names include Hippocrates, Rufus of Ephesus, Celsus, and Galen. The survival of their works throughout the ages has been the most important factor contributing to their popu…

• MUSTAFA GÜVENÇER

This new collection comprises nine essays offering a wide array of views on modal metaphysics. One of the aims of the collection is to provide a recent survey of modal theories from the seventeenth...

• MERT CAN YİRMİBEŞ

In book 10 of the Republic we find a new argument for the division of the soul. The argument’s structure is similar to the arguments in book 4 but, unlike those arguments, it centres on a purely cognitive conflict: believing and disbelieving the same thing, at the same time. The argument presents two interpretive diff…

In this paper I argue that Kant's idea of a realm of ends is not essentially an ethical idea, but a theoretical one – namely, the idea of a community of individuals, an idea to which Kant refers in...

Abstract Porphyry wrote an interpretation of a passage from the Odyssey under the title On the Cave of the Nymphs; this passage talks about a cave sacred to the water nymphs, which has two gates. Inside the cave, there are stone amphoras where bees store honey; stone looms where sea-purple clothes are woven, and a spr…

• ÜNSAL ÇİMEN

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This chapter offers an interpretation of Aristotle’s account of elemental transformation, as presented in On Generation and Corruption 2.4, arguing that traditional and revisionary interpretations of Aristotle’s simple bodies, as found particularly in the literature on prime matter, are unable to explain the structure…

Book Reviews Get access An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. By John Hospers. (London : Routledge. 1956. Pp. xii + 532. Price 25s). Varieties of Experience. By Albert W. Levi. (New York : The Ronald Press Co. 1975. Pp. ix + 525. Price $5.75). The Idealist Tradition. By A. C. Ewing. (Glencoe, Ill. : The Free Pres…

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We reviewed many of the essential Greek myths to identify the methods used at that time to relieve the pain of both illness and surgery, and we discovered many pioneering methods. Both gods and demigods implemented these methods to ease pain, to conduct surgery, and, on occasion, to kill mythological beings. The myths…

In Parts of Animals II.10, 655b37-656a8, Aristotle tacitly identifies a group of animals which partake of “living only”. This paper is an attempt to understand the nature of this group. It is argued that it is possible to make sense of this designation (i.e. “merely living animals”) if we consider that some animals, w…

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